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...witnessed the successful completion of a very risky and daring political ploy. The tax bill which Volpe had signed that morning was one designed to enable the state government to assume the costs of all local welfare programs. In the summer of 1967, the General Court authorized the Commonwealth to take over all the welfare programs administered by the cities and towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them with a state-run welfare department. Aside from assuring higher welfare care standards throughout Massachusetts, the state take-over also...
...British refuse to vaccinate their herds on the grounds that the vaccine is not 100% effective and in rare instances causes mild cases of the disease. They feel that regular vaccination would scare off U.S. and Commonwealth cattle buyers, who spend millions annually to buy pedigreed British stock. The current epidemic makes the argument seem outdated. The government already owes British farmers $35 million-only a fraction of the real value-for the slaughtered herds...
...Labor government last devalued the pound in 1949 (from $4.03 to $2.80), 23 nations followed by devaluing their own currencies. This time, several countries-Ireland, Denmark, and Israel-almost immediately followed Britain's move by devaluing, and others are sure to follow this week, particularly within the British Commonwealth. The Common Market countries immediately decided not to follow Britain's lead, and the U.S. lost no time in announcing that it has no intention of devaluing the dollar. In a White House statement, President Johnson said that he could "reaffirm unequivocally the commitment...
Last week's Supreme Judicial Court decisions have vast implications for law enforcement in the Commonwealth. In declaring the "abroad in the nighttime" statute unconstitutional, Associate Justice John V. Spalding '20, author of the opinion, wrote that "Suspicion, which is an inadequate ground for arrest is no more satisfactory as a basis for punishment." Similarly Spalding noted that "The use of the vagabond charge rather than a charge of theft or attempted theft suggests an absence of probable cause and the consequent evasion of traditional constitutional safeguards that results when suspicion, which admits of no predictable boundaries, is the basis...
...corollary of Spalding's opinion is that not only arbitrary law enforcement, but also the laws that lend themselves to it, deserve close judicial scrutiny. In this context, the long-standing practice of holding persons on suspicion of having committed a felony becomes highly questionable. So, probably, does the Commonwealth's recently enacted stop-and-frisk...