In his second annual message on crime, Lyndon Johnson last week proposed a program aimed, like much of his recent legislation, at spurring local initiative with federal cash. Lamenting "years of neglect" in this field, the President urged Congress to mount a realistic and comprehensive attack on a threat that, as he put it, "can turn us into a nation of captives imprisoned nightly behind chained doors, double locks, barred windows." Key proposals:
> Intensification of a Justice Department programwith a $6,500,000 increase (to $13.7 million) in financial supportdesigned to encourage...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
