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Each day brings more new evidence that the U.S. urban dweller conducts his life as though in an armed camp. In New York last week, a court ruled that a woman tenant could keep a watchdog in her apartment, in violation of her lease, because of "the present circumstances of rampant crime." Schools around the U.S. have been hiring guards to protect students. In Washington, D.C., a 15-year-old junior high school student was shot to death recently in his school by a classmate...
Press Council. The report's most sweeping proposal is that a press council, independent of the media and Government (but without disciplinary powers), be set up as a public watchdog for all news outlets. Describing this as "a first step toward government over-lordship," the New York Daily News cried: "The late Adolf Hitler and Dr. Joe Goebbels would have loved that." The suggestion hardly goes that far, but there are two important counts against it. Such bodies rarely prove effective and, in this particular case, the council's independence might be suspect because its members would initially...
NEWS ANALYSIS "This effectively usurps everything we do except the departmental audits. And even there, many academic departments are setting up autonomous undergraduate advisory committees that make our job as watchdog unnecessary. It's hard to see anything the HRPC's done in the past that will continue...
...outraged cries of "journalistic exhumation" and "cashing in on pornography." Lord Longford, former leader of the House of Lords, protested that "Jack Profumo has reclaimed his reputation so totally . . . it is quite revolting that some stale old stories are being published." Last week, as the clamor intensified, a government watchdog agency banned a television commercial promoting the series on grounds that the memoirs offended public feeling...
...houses be permitted to sell their own shares to the public? What kind of commission discounts should the stock exchanges give to the big institutional investors? The answers to these and other basic questions will depend largely on the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington's watchdog over Wall Street. The times would seem to call for a tough-minded decision maker as SEC chairman. In Hamer H. Budge, the SEC has instead a tranquil, kindly administrator who has a penchant for delay. In addition, Budge last week was accused of "gross, clear, conspicuous, transparent conflict...