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Instead of requesting major legislation, Nixon intends to use executive orders and existing programs whenever possible. His approach was aptly summed up by Robert Finch, a longtime Nixon friend who is resigning his post as Lieutenant Governor of California to become the new Administration's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "Our job," Finch told newsmen last week, "is to rationalize and implement the legislation now on the books...
Shift of Emphasis. An apt example is the law-and-order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney...
...There has been no commission investigation in that kingdom since 1965. Only in Cambodia, where the war occasionally spills over the border-as it did at Prey Toul-has there been a measure of ICC success. The commission's presence has probably deterred the Communists from more blatant use of their Cambodian sanctuary, while discouraging the U.S. and the South Vietnamese from striking across the frontier in hot pursuit of Communist forces...
Last week, at a party congress in Munich that re-elected him as chairman with a 95% majority, Strauss also made clear that he will use the autonomous status of the Christian Socialists to threat en "serious difficulties" for the Grand Coalition if the government decides to override them on these issues...
...remedy one imagines to be a strong budget committee reflecting the full scientific and scholarly competence of the faculty to establish priorities and to guide money-raising and use," Galbraith concluded...