October 13, 1970

Civil Rights Comm, after 6-mo study of exec depts and agencies charged with enforcing body of civil rights law, issues rept called The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort, charging there has been major breakdown in rights enforcement; pres Rev Hesburg, in discussing findings, warns nation is on collision course unless it takes serious action, news conf; urges Pres Nixon to exercise courageous moral leadership in behalf of racial justice while noting enforcement failure did not originate in current Adm; notes there was no time in past when rights enforcement was at uniformly high level of effectiveness; indicates White House sought to delay release of rept till after Nov elections; says comm does not consider study a pol document; Adm repr explains delay request; comm urges Pres to set up permanent Council on Domestic Affairs and Civil Rights Div in new Office of Mgt and Budget; notes tendency of most Fed agencies is to view civil rights enforcement as impediment to their major functions; illus

Cross and Laporte assure Govt that front will keep promise if 23 prisoners are freed, notes to Bourassa; Fed Govt summons troops to guard bldgs, Ottawa; unverified repts of troops being assigned to security duty in Montreal, where police are reptdly swamped with demands for protection from prominent citizens, noted; Bourassa names Montreal Lawyer R Demers prov Govt repr in talks with Lemieux, repr designated by front cells; intermediaries conf in prison; Chenier cell pledges to suspend activities

about 300 of Repub 'elite' turn out for fundraising dinner for Goodell at Rockefeller's Washington estate

House of Deputies overwhelmingly votes to seat women as fully accredited deputies in major break with tradition; 28 women seated immediately; House of Bishops, meeting separately, approves action with only scattering of no votes; ordaining of women to min or to episcopacy; scheduled for debate later, seen harder to achieve; both houses agree to permit 'additional repr' of youth and minority groups to participate in conv, but without vote

HR-Sen conf com, approving drug bill, rejects nearly all of Sen proposal that would have placed all Fed narcotics treatment and educ programs in single health inst