Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading general in President Johnson's War on Crime is no fire-eating, cigar-chomping prosecutor, willing to work with existing laws so long as they put criminals behind bars. As Director of the National Crime Commission, James Vorenberg wants to overhaul those laws to make them more effective and equitable, instead of just applying them more energetically...
...Administration of Justice last summer he gave it two broad assignments and 18 months to accomplish them: First, to cast light on what we do and do not know about crime and the methods aimed at its prevention and control; and, second, to make recommendations about how to overhaul this country's system of criminal justice, including specifications as to who must do what to bring this about...
There are many forces standing in the way of an overhaul of our criminal system -- fear, vested political interests, the lack of a natural lobby group for the success of the system, and a general distaste for most of those who are the customers of our agencies of justice. But the most powerful inhibiting factor -- and the one which reinforces the others -- is ignorance...
...overriding concern when it comes to curing the cities' ills. The Administration's major effort to lessen the tension of the slums is its "demonstration cities" program, a two-year, $900 million effort that will provide a subsidy of up to 80% to overhaul selected slum areas in 60 or 70 cities. A comprehensive attack, it is more than a mere brick-and-mortar program, concerning itself with such nonhousing problems as schooling, unemployment, health and recreation. The plan was approved by the Senate last week, but faces a rough-fight in the House-a possibility that...
...rebuilding the inflation-ridden, strife-torn nation. This week Ongania is expected to announce a series of "directives" spelling out a program of austerity and reform. Reports say they will include a sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul of Illia's disastrous oil policy that forced Argentina to import petroleum for the first time in years, and reorganization of the country's food-distribution system to eliminate middlemen and help blunt the cost-of-living spiral...