Word: dodd
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...Austin slaughter breathed new life into a bill now before Congress, sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, which would 1) severely limit interstate mail-order handgun shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified...
Nonetheless, a good deal of firearm violence could no doubt be prevented. By limiting interstate gun sales, the Dodd bill would strengthen the power of states to enforce their own gun laws. In most states, stiffer controls are needed-minimizing, for example, spur-of-the-moment shootings by providing "cooling-off" periods of several days before anyone can obtain a new weapon, as well as prohibiting all gun sales to criminals and known psychotics. Yet, despite the renewed clamoring for action, it is far from certain that the Dodd bill will be enacted, largely because of the influence wielded...
...rationalizations for breaching privacy are many, and they range from the plausible to the spurious. The FBI has been known to bend wiretapping rules in the interests of fighting crime. The New England Telephone Co. recently admitted to monitoring calls "to determine the quality of customer service." Senator Thomas Dodd's aide blandly defends the lifting of his employer's documents on the grounds that he wanted to unmask wrongdoing...
More to Come. The political cost could come high. Maintaining the nononsense, "quasi-judicial" approach he adopted during the first week of hearings, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the committee chairman, put searching questions to Dodd and showed little sympathy for his legalistic to-ings and fro-ings, which included an attempt to have Utah Republican Wallace Bennett, the committee's vice chairman, disqualified from further participation in the hearings on grounds that he had prejudged the case...
...committee's next step is to question Klein when the lobbyist returns from Germany by ship later this month. Then the Senators are expected to look into the more serious charge that Dodd misappropriated campaign funds for his personal...