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...accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown reached the press, and suddenly he found he had struck a deep, responsive chord throughout the U.S. He received, by his count, 8,000 letters and telegrams. Only 22 were disapproving...
...heavy-handed treatment of Poland's cultural community has become so oppressive that last week, meeting in the first extraordinary session of its 48-year history, some 350 members of the Polish Writers' Union voted to draw the line at the government's most recent crackdown. In a strongly worded resolution, they accused the Gomulka regime of throttling Poland's cultural life...
...CONSUMERS: In an eight-point program to "assure every American consumer a fair and honest exchange for his hard-earned dollar," the President proposed 1) a crackdown on salesmen's frauds, 2) a major study of automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel...
...dormitories, they pulled out 21 students-as well as eleven nonstudents found on the premises-and arrested them on charges of selling or possessing drugs. Later, eleven more youths were picked up off campus, bringing the arrest total to 43-thus making it the nation's largest campus crackdown so far on drug users...
Gestapo Tactics. To Stony Brook officials, who had not been advised that the raid was planned, it looked like something of a grandstand operation. Not only was there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid...