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...prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed at both organized crime and what he called "street crime," including legalized wiretapping, legislation to offset Supreme Court decisions that have limited the use of confessions, establishment of a congressional committee on crime, and the upgrading of police, judicial and penal systems...
House Republicans wanted a slice of $6 billion, but appeared ready to compromise at $5 billion. With that amount, Mills was sure that he could muster 90 to 100 Republican votes for the tax rise, more than enough to offset the defection of liberal Democrats, who agreed with the President that the budget needed more, not less money...
...sure, many who fall below the line are poor only by definition, such as a married medical student whose current low income is offset by bountiful prospects for the future, or the elderly couple whose monthly income of $150 in Social Security payments may suffice if they own their home, car and furniture. Nor does the poverty line distinguish between costs of living in different regions: $3,335 a year stretches a lot further in Gadsden, Ala., than in New York City. Nonetheless, the Orshansky measure, if anything, underestimates the real dimensions of poverty...
...champion a cause that, if victorious, would withdraw their freedom of expression from them immediately. If they still feel that this is what they want, they certainly have an option-to move from West Berlin into East Germany, where the government would surely welcome them with open arms to offset, in a small way, the millions who, voting with their feet, left the East to seek protection under a system of government that allowed them the right of choice...
Unless the U.S. can offset this prospective shortfall, it will lead to a rise in the dollar-weakening balance of payments deficit and renewed peril for the free world's monetary and trade system. Chances of improvement seem slim. Congress has shelved the President's proposals to curb tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak...