June 17, 1970

NEA pres Fischer and Amer Friends Service Com official W Green testify at Sen subcom hearing that 5,000 black principals and teachers in Southern schools have been dismissed, demoted or forced to resign since '54 Sup Ct decision; charge black school personnel are being replaced with less qualified whites; Green notes growth of segregated private schools has increased; both say they know of no Adm action to prevent growth; feel that much of money pledged to aid integration will be used to perpetuate segregated schools and urge strong guidelines and enforcement to prevent that; they and subcom chmn Sen Mondale attack Nixon's desegregation policy as backing down from previous commitments

Israel repts its forces struck deep into Syria at night to shell mil camp housing 1,000 soldiers near Nebk, 69 mi from cease-fire line, and sabotage hwy bridge 36 mi from Israeli territory; repts all in raiding parties returned safely; says raids were in response to increasing Syrian aggression, cites 49 violations of cease-fire in last 30 days; raiders apparently made assaults by helicopter; Syria repts Israeli troops arrived by helicopter and shelled camp 30 mi N of Damascus; map; Israel repts its jets continue attacks on UAR positions at Suez Canal; says UAR builds AA missile sites along canal; does not know whether sites are for new SAM-3's or for less advanced missiles; calls bombing raids 'very effective'; says there was drop in shooting across Jordanian cease-fire line last wk but expects action to pick up once conditions return to normal in Jordan; UAR repts its bombers attacked Israeli positions at Suez Canal northern sec; Syria bars all flights through its airspace until further notice; has done so in past when it expected Israeli air attacks

HR, after rejecting introduction of Udall-Derwinski bill, begins debate on version of reform bill drafted by HR com; key differences in 2 versions of bill noted

Cong coalition consisting of Sens Hart and Hruska and Reprs McCulloch and Boggs propose First Amendment Freedoms Act under which Fed cts could prohibit and punish interference with freedom of s; bill's provisions detailed; applications of proposed law noted

Agnew demands resignation of Campus Unrest Comm member J Rhodes Jr because of remarks he made in NY Times int (June 15,1:5) but is rebuffed by Rhodes, who refuses to resign, and by White House; charges he lacks 'maturity, objectivity and judgment' to serve on comm; says he shows bias that will make him 'counterproductive' to comm's work; holds he has misused 'relationship of mutual trust' with Ehrlichman; remarks criticized by Agnew include 1 that Rhodes would seek to discover whether student deaths could be linked to criticism of students by Nixon and Agnew; Rhodes says he does not think Nixon wants 'whitewash' rept; White House says it wants diversity of views; indications that it is surprised by Rhodes' remarks and Agnew's statement noted