PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY" SU=NDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1967 PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1967 HUAC Losing Former Power C7 Associated Press News Analysis WASHINGTON (P)-The once- powerful House Committee on Un- American Activities appears to be going into eclipse. It has approved three bills this year, all with dubious prospects of enactment. And its major in- vestigative undertaking, a study :f subsersive influences in city riots, barely got off the ground In its opening stages. Twd of the committee's bills, one aimed at antiwar groups and the )ther designed to pump new life into the moribund Subversive Ac- tivities Control Board (SACB), are expected to reach the House floor later this month. The antiwar* measure, which would slap heavy fines and prison terms on persons or groups trying to block U.S. troops trains or send- In blood or supplies to the Viet Cong or North Vietnam, was pass- ed by the House late last year only to die in the Senate. Tied Up In Committee Democratic leaders agreed Fri- day to schedule the bill for debate after Chairman William M. Col- mer (D-Miss), of the rules com- mittee threatened to call it up for action. The rules committee clear- ed it for floor debate last June, but the leaders have sat on it .nce. The Johnson administration considers the measure unnecessary and a number of Northern and Western Democrats strongly op- pose the bill. It passed the House last year 275 to 64. Its chief spon- sor is Rep. Joe Pool (D-Tex) third- ranking Democrat on the commit- tee. The other bill, cleared for floor debate about two weeks ago, is an attempt to put the SACB back into business after court decisions took the teeth out of the 1950 Internal Securities Act. Senate Opposition Even if the House, as is likely, approves the bill, it faces trouble from the Senate which ditched a similar measure in favor of a bill to disband the SACB if it fails to hear two cases next year. The third bill approved by the lommittee this year would out- law terroristic acts allegedly per- formed by-such groups as the Klu Klux Klan. The committee has no plans to bring it to the floor. Rep. John C. Culver (D-Iowa), threw something of a monkey wrench into the opening hearing 10 days ago of the investigation into rioting by question former light heavyweight boxing cham- pion Archie Moore about social and economic causes of rioting. Chairman Edwin E. Willis (D- La), and Rep. William M. Tuck (D-Va), both had made clear the committe was not interested in that but before anyone could react, Moore was answering Culver by saying that Negroes were upset at lack of jobs. Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger told the committee that the causes of riots are complex and rejected the notion that they ,ould be blamed on Communists :r Black Panthers or subversive groups in general. This brought some critical question from Rep. Albert W. Watson (R-S.C.), who expressed doubt Younger had been vigilant enough against Commu- aism. Although the antiwar bill re- :,eived strong floor support, and the committee had no difficulty in obtaining its funds this year, those hearings added to doubts among some influential House members who say privately they feel the committee has outlived its usefulness. VOICE-SDS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONDAY 7:00 P.M.-2nd FLOOR SAB Everyone Welcome! OPENING SOON Delicatessen -- m6wi at 611 South Forest Viet Cong To Free Captives To'Progressive' Groups o SAIGON M--The U.S. Mission This was described also as in called on the Viet Cong yesterday response to the good will of "the to disclose when and where they progressive people of the United will turn loose three captive Amer- States who, for the sake of peace !can sergeants that a Communist and justice, are struggling against broadcast said would be freed. ;he American imperialists' aggres- The hitch was that the broad- sion in Vietnam." Oast said the guerrillas' National The National Liberation Front's Liberation Front, the Viet Cong, Liberation Radio, monitored in was ready to hand over the three Saigon, had a different version. It to their families or "to progres- said the Red command would free sive American people's organiza- them, not that they had been tions who come to receive them." freed. Prisoners Identified U.S. Statement From garbled Communist trans- John E. McGowan, spokesman missions, U.S.cauthoritiesehave mssions, US. authorities have for the U.S. Mission, read to news- identified the men as M. Sgt. mnen a statement welcoming "the Daniel L. Pitzer of Spring Lake, annoutcement thatomhngS"th N.C: M St. dwrd . ohnonannouncement that the South N.C.; M. Sgt. Edward R. Johnson Vietnamese People's Liberation f Seaside, Calif., and S. Sgt. Armed Forces Command is releas- James E. 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