Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust of Ford's proposals was to ensure that serious offenders go to prison. In this he seemed to reflect a growing consensus of both liberals and conservatives. Ford called for mandatory jailing, with certain exceptions, of persons who commit violent offenses under federal jurisdiction. He also urged a reform of the chaotic system of federal laws. State legislatures should follow suit, he suggested, and he asked Congress to authorize $6.8 billion for Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grants to local and state governments between now and 1981. In several states, victims of crimes receive compensation for their physical injuries; Ford...
...decide what to do about the smelly kitchen when the garbage isn't taken out," says Director Joseph Hickey. "They are learning that you have to confront a problem, that life is painful and that you have to deal with it." Hickey claims: "I don't do this to reform inmates. I do it to reform the system...
...major dilemma confronts the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, who increased their share of the vote from 9.8% to 12% (3.6 million), but had been hoping to do considerably better. The Christian Democrats must reform their party before the next national election; the job may be difficult since the party has its own right-center-left factions, which constantly disagree. Leftists last week demanded Fanfani's resignation as a cure. One reformation might be to give his job to a younger, less rigid man like Defense Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a centrist more palatable to the left...
There are three principal targets of the decree: intellectuals; the reform-minded clergy, including many members of the country's Protestant-run, worker-oriented, urban industrial missions; and university students, who have played a traditionally tumultuous-and sometimes irresponsible-role in Korean politics. All three groups are kept under careful surveillance...
Last week a Senate subcommittee heard a plea by Agriculture Under Secretary J. Phil Campbell that Congress put off action until his department worked out a reform plan for the grain trade. But several lawmakers have already proposed remedies. Iowa's Clark, among others, has called for creation of a semi-independent grain-inspection agency that would have strong enforcement powers and be less exposed to "possible economic or political pressures or administrative indifference...