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...cases involving national security. After taking over as Attorney General, Clark ordered the Justice Department to review all cases for the purpose of discarding evidence that might be "tainted" because it was obtained by wiretap or bugging. He has firmly refused to make use of last June's Omnibus Crime Act, which permits court-authorized wiretaps in the collection of evidence for certain criminal offenses. Partly as a result, morale is said to be so low in his own organized-crime section that some star! members are planning to vote for Nixon...
...Interstate shipment of handguns to individuals and their over-the-counter sale to out-of-staters had already been prohibited in the previously passed omnibus crime bill...
...Department of Agriculture reacted by beefing up its food-stamp program by $20 million and pressuring 256 counties to distribute more surplus food to the poor. The U.S. welfare bureaucracy guardedly promised to hedge restrictive eligibility requirements, even though Congress would not have stood for their outright repeal. The omnibus housing bill moved closer to eventual passage. From all quarters, Government and business moved to provide more jobs...
...part, the President would like to see a provision tacked onto his bill calling for registration and licensing of guns. But he fears it would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under...
Rustin's economic charter called for a million new public-service jobs for the poverty-stricken, passage of an omnibus housing bill, extension to farm workers of labor bargaining rights, more funds for welfare budgets and emergency food programs for the poor. Abernathy's fiery new demonstration director, Hosea Williams, sneered that Rustin's manifesto was an unauthorized "bunch of foolishness." Rustin asked for Abernathy's support. It was not forthcoming, and he quit. Abernathy had already named a replacement, and Rustin's departure left Resurrection City to ranters...