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Humphrey's Charge. Nixon's first specific crime-control proposals also have political implications. Law and order became an issue last year primarily because of ubiquitous street violence, whether perpetrated by the lone mugger or the faceless mob. The President's recommendations last week aimed at the well-nigh invisible activities of organized crime (see LAW). Attacks by multi-agency "strike forces" will be expanded. New legal tools are sought to get at both gangsters and their political accomplices. While almost any antiriot measure can be construed as anti-Negro, everyone is happy to belabor the Mafia...
...thoughtful and impressive start. Nixon asked Congress for $61 million for the task-or $25 million more than the Johnson Administration had requested. Part of the extra funds will be used to hire more FBI agents and federal prosecutors and start a special Labor Department investigation of mob influence in unions...
...Egyptians suspect Townrow of being a British agent, and at times he wonders what's up himself. A love affair with a Jewess named Leah only further confuses him-Newby is not about to leave him so easy an out. Townrow is shot at, charged by a mob and jailed. In between disasters he is plagued by bad dreams and a virus with a 102° fever...
...sunny field, downing lumps of sugar, my plan for extra energy. Then it was time. I began to walk to the starting line, a few hundred yards away. I lined up in the very back because I planned a slow start and feared getting trampled by the mob...
This letter to you is to state my support for Harvard's decision to use police against the student demonstrators earlier this week. Apart from the merits of the ROTC issue, Harvard ought not to make its policy decisions in response to mob tactics. There is no intellectual future for any university dominated by overprivileged juveniles who are intoxicated by mob power...