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...only high federal official who is calling for a new attack on crime. At his confirmation hearings last month, Attorney General William French Smith said that the Justice Department would make violent crime its top priority, in contrast to the Carter Administration's focus on white-collar crime...
...film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this cheerfully sterile atmosphere, where brains are not only washed but presoaked, Tomlin's goofy, blissed-out smile serves as both benediction and subversion...
...left, just like the right." Similar tactics also won the militants considerable support among the unions, where they have had immeasurable help from the likes of Arthur Scargill, the combative Marxist president of the Yorkshire Miners, and Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the 500,000-member white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. Widespread apathy among the rank and file has also made the militants' job easier. Individual party membership has dropped to about 220,000 from a high of more than 1 million...
...head of the Justice Department's criminal division for the last two-and-a-half years, Heymann emphasized controlling white-collar crime...
While saying he had no regrets and that "nice progress was made" in controlling both white-collar and street crime, Heymann did say that his successor should "try to bring a little more order and organization among the various departments, agencies and offices involved in federal law enforcement...