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...liberties, the imposition of rigid press censorship and the arrest of an estimated 10,000 people, among them ranking opposition political leaders as well as some dissident members of Mrs. Gandhi's own Congress Party. Arguing that the emergency "was undertaken not to destroy the constitution but to safeguard democracy," she said the proclamation had been a "painful necessity" because opposition groups had attempted to subvert the government and destroy democracy...
...REPRESSING DISSENT: Illegal acts that foment social disorder and confusion in the face of threats of aggression from the North must be controlled to safeguard the basic rights of the majority. People [who] criticize what we do in Korea measure the situation with the same yardstick that they use in the U.S. Here the situation is much more desperate. Only 25 miles from Seoul, an enemy is bent on destroying us. We can not allow disorder. If we liberalize internally, if we let the students riot and the workers go on strike, the resulting confusion will be utilized...
...budget itself, the Administration now projects a $59.9 billion deficit for fiscal 1976, which starts in July, v. a $51 billion forecast earlier. That almost certainly reflects President Ford's policy proposals and insistence that a $60 billion deficit is the biggest the nation can stand. To safeguard his objective, Ford can derail some congressional spending plans. Last week he vetoed a $5.9 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it provided more money for summer jobs, greater unemployment compensation and other programs than he had requested; Democrats are uncertain that they can override the veto. Nonetheless, Congress is sure...
LEGAL SERVICES. Old people in need of legal services to protect their rights to housing, Social Security or medical benefits, safeguard their assets and guard against exploitation by the unscrupulous, can usually obtain them through local legal-aid societies, which provide free or low-cost legal guidance. More specialized help is available from the National Council of Senior Citizens, which has its headquarters in Washington, and local Gray Panthers' organizations...
Wicker's involvement at Attica was anything but narcotic. Shortly after the rebellion began on Sept. 9, 1971, he was asked by prisoners to join a 37-man committee of observers to mediate and publicize their fight for better conditions and safeguard them against reprisal. Five days and 43 lives later, Wicker returned to Washington a haggard, angry and sad man-but a man who no longer was hesitant about using power "to force," as he says, "elementary humanity upon even greater power...