Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely Hyperbole. It is the nation's capital, in fact, that supplies the most embarrassing evidence of the Administration's inability to curtail crime. The federal city is the one area where the Government can put its precepts directly to work. Yet in the first ten months after Nixon took office, serious crimes in the capital rose 29% over the previous year. The Administration has submitted to Congress an ambitious anticrime package for Washington, but its key provision is preventive detention of potentially dangerous defendants, a concept of such dubious constitutionality that even law-and-order conservatives...
...pound, though many growers sell part or all of their crops on the black market for as much as five times the official price. (Pure heroin sells for at least $8,000 a pound in the underworld.) In 1968, the U.S. gave Turkey $3,000,000 to curtail opium production, half of which was used for additional enforcement and the rest to develop substitute crops. By the end of this year opium growing will be legal in only seven of the 21 provinces (out of a total of 67 in Turkey) that once produced poppies. The Nixon Administration may well...