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Justice Department officials rate the city's police force "the most brutal in the nation. A local watchdog organization called the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), set up two years ago with federal money, has logged more than 400 complaints about brutality so far his year. Reviewing 432 claims over a one-year period, PILCOP found that 54% involved blacks, although they account for just 35% of the city's population. From 1970 through 1974, another PILCOP study revealed, cops shot 236 people, killing 81 of them; half of those were unarmed. In researching a series...
...mixed, perhaps because of the sort of reasoning used by the Times's Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...
...meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms for more pro bono publico work, and demands for lay voices in the disciplining of lawyers...
...other country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal Banking Commission, has only twelve employees assigned to keep tabs on the industry...
...many of whom are extravagantly enthusiastic. It has also shown Soap to the press, and somehow a five-year plot projection, or "bible," has been leaked. Religious groups have quickly created a dispute about material that has not yet even survived the ABC censors. Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going to be the opening wedge for sexually explicit material in prime time." Adds Al Antczak of the Roman Catholic newspaper Tidings: ''The desecration of morality, and of the Catholic religion in particular, is an outrage that calls...