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Rochford immediately called for a "complete turnabout" on the force and proposed a list of modest reforms that filled three single-spaced pages. Main items: setting up a new Office of Professional Standards, staffed in part by civilians, to investigate police brutality and corruption; reinstating psychiatric evaluations of applicants to weed out the emotionally unstable; and attracting more blacks and Spanish-speaking people to the force. Rochford also asked the mayor to take away the police's power to issue liquor licenses and give it to some other city agency...
...this sudden turnabout by a spectator who was weaned on the Quakers' triumphant battles at the Palestra...
...strident, almost Agnewesque speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation in Atlantic City. He lashed out at "a few extreme partisans" who were determined to "crush the President and his philosophy" so they could "dominate the Congress, and through it, the nation." It was an ill-considered and surprising turnabout for Ford. Until then he had seemed fully aware of his delicate role as a possible successor who would be called upon to play a healing and conciliating role if Nixon left office...
White House Turnabout on Giving Up Tapes...
...same members are now rushing forward in pursuit of the Grail of European unity. "Europe has been treated like a nonentity," complained French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert in a remarkable turnabout. "Europe has been humiliated by the superpowers..." Willy Brandt, preaching to the converted, promised the European Parliament in Strasbourg: "We can and will create Europe." Ted Heath and Georges Pompidou, meeting at Chequers, exchanged vows of the same sort...