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Show Scanning Tfie World News Fronts Senate Takes Up Civil Rights COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Senate cleared the way Thursday for the main civil rights battle of 1964 by refusing to send the explosive measure to the Judiciary Judici-ary Committee for 10 days. The 50-34 vote came a few hours after a b-i decision to take up the bill, a motion which had been debated for 15 days, with Southern foes of the legislation legis-lation doing most of, the talking. These results heartened civil rights advocates although both were mere preliminaries to the big debate starting Mon- The showdown vote was on a motion by Majority Ma-jority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont, to table or kill a motion by Sen. Wayne Morse, 'D-Ore., to send the bill to the Southern-dominated Judiciary Committee. Com-mittee. . . ,c WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Robert o. McNamara said Thursday night that direct military action 'against Communist North Viet Nam could on y be supplementary to the main antiguernlla war in South Viet Nam but he did not rule out the possibility possi-bility of such attacks. He said it has been given careful study. ' The Pentagon chief said, too, that: 1. The "sitation in South Viet Nam has unquestionably un-questionably worsened since last fall but .the Jw government of Gen. Nguyen Khanh is vigorously rebuilding the machinery of administration ana re shaping plans to carry the war" again,,. Cong g-rrillas0ad m .g going to be ,0ng3difS:'e7statnsg-'will continue to give m in South Viet Nam, one of the family of free he p to South V et i Qf faml, nations; We will not iei . shores." tionE across South Korea on Thursday for t e nfrphrSd Power lloZT he wil, press on with nego u.t n . to k6 lefrstuSs rrcTsSite his ban on four TeaPrfago torched off a revolt that toppled PsildAe"yonNgXLERla.-Violence in the form of aSk Ind fire bombs plagued this port city Lfn L white and Negro leaders groped for a way outofthe4-day-oMractalcns,s of teen-tget'annjurerSousJ Wednesday, police said. , |