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...present form, the Jackson bill also starts to put the Federal Government's own houses in order. Right now, some 122 separate federal programs that affect land use remain to be coordinated. It is not unusual for one agency, dealing with highways, say, to clash with another dealing with air quality...
Jurisdiction Fight. Such a course would be designed to avoid a protracted legal struggle over the constitutional question of whether a Vice President must be impeached before facing any criminal charges in the courts. But TIME has learned that such a clash may be imminent anyway. Agnew's lawyers intend to fight any such action as illegal, on the constitutional argument that the grand jury has no jurisdiction over the Vice President unless or until he is first impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office after a trial in the Senate...
HOWEVER much the Afro debate manifests itself as a clash of personalities, the political and academic issues that hinge upon the outcome remain more important. Although racial considerations are rarely mentioned in the current Faculty discussions of the Department the fact remains that the Faculty's decisions when it restructures Afro will have a profound effect on the undergraduate careers of the majority of Harvard's black students...
...Riggs-King matches, has brought suit against Tandem for allegedly not giving him "due attention." A more substantive suit has been filed by CBS, which presented the Riggs-Court match and insists that it was not given sufficient time to pick up its option for the upcoming clash. A hearing is scheduled for this week, but no one expects court action to stop the show...
Inflation is rampant. Retail prices have soared 24% in twelve months. In Uttar Pradesh state, 20,000 policemen struck in May for better wages and conditions, leading to an ugly and bloody clash with the army in which 34 men were killed. Government officials from the highest to the lowest local levels have become unashamedly corrupt. It now takes a bribe to get a child into school, to get a milk card, even to get a long-distance railway ticket, let alone any of the innumerable licenses that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands. One capital resident said last week...