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Whatever fiscal measures he finally decides on, Nixon will then have the difficult job of selling them on Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue...
They are charged under a stringent Prisons Act that makes it a crime to publish false information on prisons without taking "reasonable" steps to verify it. The onus of proof is on the accused. The government no longer denies the main thrust of the Mail's stories, since ample evidence of prison brutality is now on the record. Instead, the charges against Gandar and Pogrund are based on legalistic quibbles. For instance, the prosecution does not dispute that prisoners were tortured with electric shocks-only that the newspaper said the shocks were administered on orders from a prison officer...
...restated his support of stringent gun-control laws, including registration of weapons and licensing of owners. Nixon opposes federally mandated registration and licensing...
...Wallace, he has, consequently, adopted a "yes, but" attitude. He is for the non-proliferation treaty, but against ratification just now?a position that could, in the end, wreck the treaty's chances for passage. He approves of the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision but opposes stringent federal dictation to local school authorities to make integration work. He acknowledges repeatedly that civil order cannot be achieved without social justice but last week called Humphrey "naive" about crime. "Doubling the conviction rate in this country," said Nixon, "would do far more to cure crime in America than quadrupling...
There is general agreement that Britain has made an honest stiff-upper-lip effort to right its economy. The fact remains that the country's balance of payments problem is chronic, despite such stringent measures as devaluation of the pound, a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes...