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The Southern Cross, April 18, 1968-PAGE 3
FOURTH MAJOR RIGHTS LAW SINCE 1960
Open Housing Enacted;
Churches Sparked Drive
WASHINGTON, D. C.
(RNS) -- Shrugging off some
Southern charges that
Congress was acting “in an
atmosphere of emotion,
threats and armtwisting,” the
House approved an extensive
civil rights measure whose
key provision is open
housing.
The fourth major civil
rights bill to be enacted since
1960 brought an immediate
response from President
Johnson, who also indicated
he may soon be calling on
Congress to push efforts on
further welfare, job, urban
renewal and tension-reducing
measures. Church support
had followed the bill
throughout both houses of
Congress.
“Through the process of
law,” the President said, “we
shall strike for all time the
shackles of an old injustice.”
He termed the bill’s passage
“a victory for every
American.”
The rights measure’s
housing provision will cover
up to 80 per cent of all
housing in the U. S. after
Dec. 31, 1969, and will be
binding against private
individuals, real estate firms
and banking institutions,
both in selling and renting
property.
The House version was
identical to the Senate bill,
which passed after eight
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weeks of debate and an
impasse broken by Sen.
Everett Dirksen (R.-Ill.) who
long had opposed open
housing legislation.
In the House debate, the
death of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., played prominently
and brought some adverse
remarks, particularly by
Southern legislators, that
Congress was being caught up
in emotion rather than reason
in acting on the legislation.
But it was made clear that
debate on the measure had
been scheduled for this week
before the assassin’s bullet
struck Dr. King on April 4,
and that its timing was not
motivated by his death.
Rep. John B. Anderson
(R.-Ill). a Conservative who
lately has advocated open
housing, may have set the
action in its most nearly
accurate perspective when
he declared the legislation
was not “any memorial to the
dead.”
Nor was it buckling under
to rioters, he added, who
even during the debate, had
caused the Capitol to come
under heavy military guard.
Rep. Anderson said it was not
a reward to “the arsonists,
looters and vandals who have
sacked parts of Washington,
Baltimore and other
cities . . . They couldn’t care
less about the bill.”
He said he viewed the bill,
rather, “as a reward to the
young Negro school teacher
in my own home community
(Rockford, Ill.) who
answered more than 100
advertisements for a house or
apartment only to be turned
away each time because of
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the color of his skin.”
He told his colleagues the
measure should not be passed
“out of fear, but out of
concern for America.” The
legislator, a key layman of
the Evangelical Free Church,
regularly writes a column for
the denomination’s official
organ, “The Beacon.”
There is little doubt that
the conscience of Congress
was affected, however, by Dr.
King’s death. Before his
death, there was considerable
doubt that the bill would ever
clear the House. Passage,
however, came by a margin of
250-171.
It prompted the President
to urge Congress to push
other efforts for social refrom
for the millions of Americans
“who look to it now for
action.”
Protestant and Roman
Catholic authorities, who
have been fairly well united
in pushing for open housing
legislation, are expected to
hail the Congressional action.
Some, it was felt, will pick up
the theme sounded by the
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr.
King’s successor in the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. He
said:
“This is a great stride
toward freedom of white
America, but it is barely a
step forward for Black
America. New York had had
this type of bill for 10 years
and we still have the ghetto.”
Mr. Abernathy’s words are
significant in that many of
the persons living in slums are
unable to afford housing even
if it is made available to
them. President Johnson has
asked for legislation which
will alleviate this condition.
The new rights act makes
it unlawful to discriminate in
the sale or rental of housing
on the basis of race, color or
religion. Its first phase applies
to federally-funded or aided
construction.
Beginning Jan. 1, 1969, it
will apply to other housing,
except for single family
houses in most instance, and
ironically, housing provided
by religious organizations.
Beginning Jan. 1, 1970,
the provision will extend to
single family units if brokers
or agents are employed in
their sale or rental.
The rights bill also has
provisions against making
threats of interfering with the
rights of an individual or with
the activities of rights
workers.
Another provision rules
against organizaing or inciting
to riot across state lines. This
also applies to demonstrating
the use of explosives and
other materials which
knowingly will be used in
riots.
A final provision, which is
certain to get fuller attention
soon from religious bodies, is
a “bill of rights” for the
nation’s 600,000 Indians.
IN BALTIMORE
PRESIDENT SIGNS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT-President Johnson is surrounded by other government
leaders as he signs historic Civil Rights Act of 1968 which strengthens civil liberties and provides
for wider open housing. Among those around the President are from left: Sen. Edward W. Brooke
of Massachusetts; Sen. Jacob Javits of New York, House Speaker John W. McCormack and Justice
Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to sit on U. S. Supreme Court. (RNS Photo)
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Mercy T earn Killed By
VC Mourned In Vietnam
SAIGON (NC) —“They
were like father and mother
to me,” a 43-year-old leprosy
patient said in a broken voice.
In dark brown coffins lay
the remains of the two he
mourned, Dr. Horst G.
Krainick, 59, and his wife,
Elizabeth, 56, a nurse. Two
other coffins held the remains
of Dr. Raimond Discher, 46,
and Dr. Alois Altekoester, 36.
All four, members of a
German medical team, had
been killed in cold blood by
the communist Viet Cong
toward the end of the long
battle of Hue.
The grieveing leper spoke
at a memorial service held in
the state university of Hue, to
which the German doctors
had come as advisors. The
university rector spoke. So
did students, some of whom
wept openly. The leprosy
patient represented the sick
and injured in the provincial
hospital, where the German
doctors had also worked.
The four had been taken
prisoners by the Viet Cong on
Feb. 5, five days after the Tet
offensive had begun in Hue.
On April 3, the four bodies
were found together in a
shallow grave in the garden of
Tuong Van pagoda, about
two miles from where they
had been seized. Tuong Van
is a small pagoda near the Tu
Dam pagoda, which the
communists used as their
command post for that area.
The doctors and Mrs.
Krainick were taken from
their apartments in the
quarters assigned to
university professors on the
south bank of the Perfume
River. The communists did
not want to take Mrs.
Krainick, but she insisted on
accompanying her husband
who was in bad health.
He told his captors that he
should stay in Hue, where he
was needed to take care of
the wounded. They answered
that he would have to come
with them. They had
wounded, too, they said.
It is thought that the four
were not killed immediately.
The Viet Cong probably used
them, perhaps for two weeks,
to attend to their wounded
and then when the American
and Vietnamese troops were
closing in, murdered them.
Each of the four was shot in
the back of the head,
according to reports from
Hue. All had been bound.
Dr. Krainick was one of
the founders of the faculty of
medicine at Hue university.
The first rector of the
university, Father Paul Cao
van Luan, had asked the
German government to aid in
establishing the faculty. In
1959 the authorities in Bonn
asked Dr. Krainick, a
professor at the University of
Freiburg, to go to Hue to
study the possibilities. He
reported favorably to the
governments in Bonn and
Saigon. Then he and Father
Luan went to Germany to
recruit volunteer advisers.
They persuaded the
University of Freiburg to
sponsor the project. In 1960
Dr. Krainick returned to Hue
and was joined by other
doctors, lecturers from
Freiburg, to serve as advisers
for the new faculty.
Dr. Discher arrived in
1961 and Dr. Altekoester in
1967.
The German doctors
taught at the university and
worked in the large provincial
hospital. Dr. Krainick was a
specialist in children’s
diseases. Dr. Discher took
care of two wards. Mrs.
Discher, who returned to
Germany a few months ago,
helped in the laboratory.
Their fourth child was bom
in Germany only recently.
Dr. Discher never saw the
baby.
Dr. Krainick was largely
responsible for having a
36-bed hospital built and
opened in a Catholic parish in
Quang Tri province north of
Hue. Through Bishop
Hermann Schaufele of
Freiburg he obtained help
from Misereor, the German
bishops’ relief agency, for the
hospital. The doctor would
drive there through dangerous
territory to attend to the
patients. He made his last trip
to the hospital in
mid-January when the
situation was particularly
hazardous. His wife often
accompanied him.
Father Luan, who said
they did a great deal of
charitable work, is now a
professor at the University of
Saigon.
The German doctors were
to have left Hue, terminating
their mission, last December,
but they volunteered to
remain until late June, the
end of the academic year.
They intended to go to
Taiwan later. Dr. Krainick
had accepted an invitation to
work in a Catholic hospital in
Taipei.
It is significant of the
multiple tragedies of Hue
under the Viet Cong terror
that the common grave of the
slain doctors and Mrs.
Krainick was discovered by
an elderly Vietnamese
searching for missing
members of his own family.
The bodies were flown to
Saigon and then on April 13
to Germany. Funeral services
were April 10 at the Grail
hospital here.
A simple Protestant service
in German and French
preceded a requiem Mass.
Archbishop Paul Nguyen Van
Binh of Saigon knelt in the
sanctuary and gave the
absolution. The chapel was
crowded with Vietnamese
and foreigners, including
diplomatic representatives.
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early April’s disorders was
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outbreak of strife in the inner
city, Associated Catholic
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the disturbances began. Nine
Catholic churches were among
the 19 centers open to those
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those burned out in the
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clergymen occurred. One
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