Word: watchdogging
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...Watchdog. As he whacks away at the bureaucracy, Nixon promises not to spare his own staff, which has grown larger than that of any previous President. Some members apparently were ready to move out quite willingly, including Dent, Speechwriter William Safire, Communications Director Herbert Klein and Special Counsel Robert Finch. Already gone is Nixon's former chief legislative aide, Clark MacGregor, who served as director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and will accept a presumably lucrative vice presidency with United Aircraft Corp. He will be the top contact man with Washington for the firm...
...shakeup: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, revealed that he had been asked to resign as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission-and that he would do so. The commission, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, was meant to be an independent watchdog agency, scrutinizing progress in civil rights, including efforts of the Federal Government. Hesburgh, who served energetically on the commission since its formation, has been highly critical of Nixon's antibusing positions and the Administration's lethargy in enforcing civil rights laws...
...former Polaroid employees and members of a national ID watchdog group demonstrated yesterday against Harvard's use of ID cards and attacked the new science center as a "symbol of Polaroid's key support of the apartheid in South Africa...
Testimony by legislators, lawyers, press organizations and others overwhelmingly favored prompt congressional action. Without a sound law, they argued, sources of information would simply dry up out of fear of being exposed. Only the right of silence would leave the press free to fulfill its traditional watchdog mission. As one example, William Small of CBS testified that the network had been forced recently to drop a segment of a program on welfare fraud when it could not promise its informant anonymity...
...newspaper's findings set off a state investigation and resulted in widening the federal inquiry, which produced indictments of 40 political small fry. An election watchdog group brought suit to place Kusper's board under court supervision...