Word: curtailer
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...government has now told Parliament it is time to crack down. But it is fearful that its efforts to curtail legal supplies of heroin might leave a vacuum into which smugglers and pushers will rush, making the "cure" worse than the present disease. Trying to balance on this tightrope, the government will soon introduce legislation with the following provisions...
Later this month, the National Crime Commission is expected to recommend legislation to the President to expedite law enforcement. It should definitely propose a bill to curtail federal agents' bugging activities. Exceptions--which will be necessary in some instances--should be granted individually by the courts. Congress should codify the principle that effective prosecutors should not infringe on the civil liberties of alleged criminals...
...University much this Fall. Though the draft quota for October soared to a Korean-War level of over 45,000 and the quota for November will be near 40,000, almost no one in the College or graduate schools has been affected. A few students have been forced to curtail leaves of absence but "There has been no increase in pressure," says Dean Monro, "and if there had been, I think I wold have heard...
Planned Disorder. If the Guards get their orders mixed up, the reason is understandable: their instructions are often conflicting. For example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help...
McNamara blasted back in kind. In a press conference with Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, he termed the Hebert report "shockingly distorted," charged that its claim that his decision to curtail manned bombers was made despite J.C.S. protest "is without any foundation whatsoever." McNamara conceded that Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell had argued for "full deployment and full development" of a new big bomber and that a unanimous J.C.S. request for $23 million to pursue research on such a bomber had been cut in half by McNamara himself. "I see no clear need for a new strategic bomber...