Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously policemen are just as entitled to personal prejudices as anyone else-so long as they control them better than anyone else. When scores of skull-cracking policemen "overreacted" against innocent bystanders in Chicago, they undermined the very order they meant to maintain. The fact that 56% of Americans approved (according to Gallup) makes such occurrences no more palatable. By responding as they did, Chicago police gave the true anarchists among the demonstrators a victory they never dared imagine. If a demonstrator can provoke a riot by hurling four-letter words at a policeman, the U.S. is in for more...
...peaceniks and anything else likely to bring the police uptight. Instead of lashing out, the Sausalito cop is now apt to ask coolly: "What do you want to go and provoke me for?" Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes-residential burglaries and auto thefts have been cut in half. In similar sessions with local citizens, Houston cops are trying hard to understand minority-group problems...
...position of the new deputies, when and if elections are held, will also be significantly weakened by the constitution. They may now be arrested without the consent of the Chamber. Many observers think this situation puts them directly under the control of the ruling junta...
...unusual for Presidents to take control of detail like this in times of crisis. Kenedy did it for two weeks in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. The problem was that the bombing of the North constituted a continuing crisis lasting for years. Lyndon Johnson's personal obsession with the war obviously aggravated the problem, but to some extent, the political failure of the first week of December 1966 is a failure of an institution --the presidency--which has increasingly been biting off more than it can chew. A year long crisis is an extreme example, but it contains...
...right thing. To some extent, this is a tribute to the press, but it is also a comment on the men and institutions which are running the war. For better or worse, they have been bad propagandists. The extent to which any administration can deceive the public without control of the media is fortunately limited, but the Johnson Administration has repeatedly misused its still formidable weapons of persuasion. The blunders have been sometimes comic, sometimes pitiable, sometimes scandalous. The story of the we-will-be-out-by pledges is well known, but there are other failures. For instance, it would...