Word: bille
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...file at the A.M.A. office in Washington are cards on each member of Congress, including the name of his personal physician-who is often asked to pay a political call on his Capitol Hill patient. When important legislation is under study (there are about 1,600 health bills before this session of Congress), the A.M.A. can signal its 3,000 county medical societies to start a letter-writing campaign. A favorite tactic is to get leading county doctors to march into a Congressman's office to argue for or against a bill. The association's most powerful ally...
...Nixon's campaign director and chief architect of his celebrated Southern strategy, has created the impression that he is trying to placate the white South. He is credited with the recent decision to ease school-desegregation guidelines. He was responsible for drafting the Administration's voting rights bill, which would have done away with the current law in favor of a much weaker measure - and was unceremoniously rejected by the House Judiciary Committee last week. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell has earned a reputation for being brusque and undiplomatic...
Questioned by TIME, some of the most distinguished law professors were almost entirely negative in their comments on the new Attorney General. "It seems," said Berkeley's Sanford Kadish, "as if the department sees the values of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome. There seems to be a single-minded effort to cut the crime rate, with little sense of the constraints of the Constitution." Some of Mitchell's critics also complain that his background as a Wall Street expert on municipal bonds-about as far removed from criminal practice or civil...
...Professor Richard Uviller contends that bugging is one of the most effective weapons against organized crime. A preliminary report on the effects of the wiretap provisions of the new crime-control law tends to bear him out: the 174 taps authorized by four state courts after the Omnibus Crime Bill was passed last year led to no fewer than 263 arrests. "We can't guarantee that there won't be abuses in this area any more than you can be assured that a cop will use his gun properly," says Alfred Scotti, chief assistant in the busy Manhattan...
...groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses, and a similar bill has been proposed in Congress to withhold federal monies. Tennessee has adopted a new law making it a misdemeanor for a teacher to present sex courses without prior approval of both the state government and local boards of education...