Word: controls
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Shift of Emphasis. An apt example is the law-and-order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney...
...country to pieces." To prevent this from happening, Richard Nixon has promised to create a Council on Urban Affairs with the same high White House priorities that only the National Security Council now commands. But it remains to be seen whether the council will wield sufficient power-or control sufficient funds-to make an impact on the problems of urbs and suburbs. The omens are not promising, particularly in the area of increased cooperation between the two in seeking improvement. A case in point: for more than a year, the National Commission on Urban Problems and the Task Force...
Solutions Make Problems. Once in power, the military inevitably create new problems as they solve old ones. Accomplishing the nearly impossible job of bringing under some control Brazil's ruinous inflation, the army's unbending political attitudes alienated so many Brazilians that the military men felt isolated and unappreciated (see following story). In Bolivia, Barrientos' army-backed regime has brought peace to the tin mines on whose exports the country's economic health depends. Yet his somewhat heavy-handed rule has infuriated and alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock...
Several days earlier, a helicopter had rocketed the small Cambodian village of Prey Toul near the South Vietnamese border, killing one civilian and injuring 23 others. Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government had complained, and now the International Control Commission -composed of Canadian, Indian and Polish officials-was on the scene to investigate. The fragments they saw were clearly from U.S.-made rockets. The projectile laid out on a table for inspection was a grenade of the kind fired by American helicopters...
...that the Geneva Conference ended the French-Indo-China war and created three control commissions (for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) to supervise the cease-fire and to prevent future violations of its agreements. The commission in Viet Nam-the largest and most important-has held more than 750 full meetings and filed eleven weighty reports on its mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid...