Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...cities are ever to become strong enough to reverse this trend toward polarization and cope with their other difficulties, the Douglas report argues, overlapping local governments must be simplified and streamlined. There is now an average of 90 separate units of government for each urban area in the U.S. with more than 50,000 people; metropolitan Chicago has a paralyzing total of 1,113. Building codes and zoning regulations are confusing, often contradictory. Adequate housing is still a chimera for most urban low-income families (and increasingly so for the middle class as well...
...heart of the matter is the financial crisis of local government. As middle-class taxpayers leave the central city for the suburbs, revenue goes down while public-service costs go up because most of those who remain are poor. Welfare costs in New York City, for example, now consume $1.5 billion annually, the largest item in the city's $5-billion-plus budget. Welfare costs in suburbia are increasing at an even greater rate than those in the central cities...
Among 150 specific recommendations in the Douglas report, the biggest and costliest is a revenue-sharing plan that would turn back to state and local governments 2% of federal revenues, some $6 billion a year. Says the report: "The federal tax system, with all its faults, is more progressive and equitable than the systems currently used by the state and local governments...
...daughter's safe return. Contact was made and Mackle stuffed a large suitcase with old $20 bills to the amount of $500,000. Following orders, he dropped it into Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered to notify the police of the ransom dropoff...