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...logic is irrefutable: if a man has a thorough medical examination every year or so, doctors should be able to pick up the earliest signs of incipient disease or disability, and thus treat his condition most effectively and economically. But until recently, the omnibus "multiphasic health testing" approach was confined largely to corporate executives and high-echelon employees whose companies considered them valuable enough, in balance-sheet terms, to justify annual expenditures of $200 each or more for checkups. These screenings were performed by such organizations as New York City's Executive Health Examiners, serving the top brass...
...unnecessary delay" in violation of federal rules, and that such delays "must not be of a nature to give opportunity for the extraction of a confession." The so-called "Mallory rule" outraged police officials, and several Congressmen vainly submitted bills to overturn it. Not until the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control Act was it modified: a confession is now admissible if a judge rules that it was voluntary and that the delay before presentation to a magistrate was not unreasonably longer than six hours...
While Congress fiddles, badly needed measures are blocked: welfare reform, national health insurance, omnibus housing and community-development programs, no-fault insurance, railroad strike procedures and gun control. The national conventions loom, and so does the political fact that all House members and one-third of the Senators must stand for re-election in November. It is thus questionable that any of these bills will be resolved, a situation sure to renew calls for further Congressional reform...
...balance, it seems wiser to have an FBI under direct Administration control. Certain safeguards could prevent political abuses. The Omnibus Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 already stipulates that new directors of the FBI must be confirmed by the Senate, thus providing one review. But Congress should inspect the bureau's budget and operations on a continuing basis, instead of unquestioningly rubber-stamping appropriations as it did in Hoover's time. Certainly the director's term should be fixed by law in order to prevent another man from establishing a life tenure...
Under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, only the Attorney General or a "specially designated" Assistant Attorney General has the power to authorize federal investigators to seek a court warrant for wiretapping. The law deliberately limited authorization of wiretaps in order to allay fears of widespread, unchecked surveillance. In the Nixon Administration, only Mitchell was legally empowered to authorize wiretaps. He did not delegate that authority to an Assistant Attorney General permitted, under the law, to act in his behalf...