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...punishment. "Most parents won't defend a drug user?until he's their son," says Stanford University Psychologist Jean Paul Smith. However, the experts have become increasingly concerned over excessive drug penalties. Dr. Roger Egeberg, the Nixon-appointed Assistant Secretary of HEW for Health and Scientific Affairs, says that the laws governing marijuana "are completely out of proportion" to the dangers of the drug. Declared the Mental Health Institute's Dr. Yolles in his testimony last week: "I know of no clearer instance in which the punishment for an infraction of the law is more harmful than the crime...
...Hoover Commission in 1949 and updated in scathing language last spring by "Nader's Raiders," the team of young lawyers and students assembled by Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon has offered to move down and serve until 1974 as one of the five commissioners. Nixon could name the new man as early...
Avoiding Muscle. The Nixon Administration earlier this year began requiring contractors in Philadelphia to present detailed plans for hiring Negroes in order to qualify to bid on federal construction projects. George Meany and many contractors argue that the "Philadelphia Plan" amounts to a racial-quota system barred by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In response to an inquiry from Arkansas Senator John McClellan, U.S. Comptroller General Elmer Staats recently held that the plan is illegal. The Labor Department, backed by a contrary opinion from Attorney General John Mitchell, is pushing ahead anyway. It expects to extend the plan to federal...
...played a part in such inaction. In return for promises not to discriminate, President Neil Haggerty of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction trades union received what he considers "personal commitments" from Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to let unions remain the sole judge of "the quality of our membership." President Nixon has made no such promise. Still, the Administration has yet to use its power under the 1964 civil rights law to seek injunctions against obvious patterns of discrimination. Last week the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette condemned Attorney General Mitchell for avoiding such litigation. The paper editorialized: "How can we lecture people...
...Baker was appointed to the President's Commission on Postal Organization. He is currently a member of President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization...