European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 4 the stars and stripes August 1977 Washington grif Fin Bell is creating a new Bureau of Nal Justice slate stick to replace a much criticized horse and buggy system of measuring crime in the new Justice department Agency would take Over the crime statistics work of the the Law enforcement assist Ance administration and several other department various commissions and study groups have proposed the idea in one form or an other or More than but Bell has become the first attorney general to take Steps to accomplish the project could give the Public and government officials at All Levels important information about crime trends and fresh insight about the causes of crime and ways to combat it product about 17 department units produce h different bets of statistics Deal ing with the prisons or other aspects of the criminal just ice the bes known statistics Are the Bis annual and quarterly figures on the number of crimes reported to state and local but those reports include Only seven crime larceny and motor vehicle theft and say nothing about White Collar offences and numerous Leaa sponsors regular polls of citizens to determine How Many have been victims of what kinds of but those reports say nothing about who is committing the crimes and whether they were arrested and convicted department officials and private re searchers have complained for that the government produces no reliable measurement of crime in the ten years a presidential commission said rime figures were collected through a system that was less than adequate in the Days of the horse and information about crime is so unreliable and varied that in is impossible to with any reasonable degree of conclusions about the state of the nations crime prob said a department staff report on the a Zig pledges to make new York irresistible new York Puli democratic May aral candidate Bella Abzug says Shell make new York City irresistible to film and television if i am ill see to it thai new like like is a film and to capital of the the former congresswoman told a reception Given in her Honor by film producer Robert reliable and crime any Overall Effort to control crime must base its strategy on and occasional frag ments of information totally inadequate to the magnitude of the problem the under the direction of Harry a department review has been drafting plans to Combine All he statistical functions in one in an Scarr said the flew Bureau could begin limited operations Early next year if Bell approves final but it will Lake new legislation from con Gress before the Bureau could Lake Over All the departments crime statistics work and go into full Scarr said he Hopes a Complete proposal could be presented next Spring to uie office of management and budget to be included in the departments budget request for the 1980 fiscal he said the Cost of the statistics during its first probably would not exceed the estimated to million department already spends on collecting Var ious crime statistics and financing state crime statistics under the the new Bureau would coordinate its efforts with the state programs and would continue to finance them Hove a drink on me Whit in blk far when you ire Only two feet jul and find youre not quite up to the water Ountria that right by Are tar Cunt Long on i to get of in thai Ajsa and her u Yoe Mon Todd team a Miami Fountain of a at a Thurmond Calls treaty blackmail Senate clash on canal predicted Washington a an opponent of the proposed new treaty concerning the Panama canal promised sunday there will be a prolonged debate in the Senate in an Effort to Block under the International treaties must be ratified by the Senate and signed by the president to became effect Jesse and Strom who oppose turn ing the Panama canal Over to the Panama said the United slates should not allow itself to be blackmailed into giving up its youve got to stand up for your said we own this property and  have la give it up by Black the treaty agreement gives Panama control of the 50mile canal by the year 2000 but retains to the United states the right to insure the neutrality of the water Way Thurmond and Helms visited Panama last week and Are expected to work against Senate ratification of the they were interviewed on the Abc Tele vision program meet the Helms you can count on a filibuster against ratification when Issue comes before us ratification of a treaty requires approval by two thirds of the senators present and Helms and Thurmond both rejected claims thai failure to ratify the treaty would touch off violence in the senators also discounted statements i support of the treaty by i military of saying since president woo supports the is their command any officers who sprite against it would ruin their i i1 St Iii prosecute antiquities violations a Souve Nir Hunters and paddlers caught digging for artefacts on Federal and Indian land win still be in despite a magistrates ruling that a 1906 Law is too Rago to stand the government Robert who prosecuted the Case that Jed to the ruling last said the attorneys office will continue to prosecute antiquities violations with disabled Man has 160mile swim Lupoli a disabled Call Romian saturday completed a mile swim on Lake Powell to Benefit Las Angele Sarea visually several Hundred including his greeted John de la 1im disabled by an Industrial Accident and an accidental gunshot wound in years when lie stepped from the de la Cruz was accompanied on his swim by a a rubber life raft and a the woman Dinghy had capsized during a Strung storm that forced de la Cruz to Board the but it was later recovered and put Back to de la Cruz started the swim hoping to Complete 200 but the Effort was Cut Short by the bad he is believed to be the first person to have managed to swim the Dis Tance along the length of the manmade Une of the largest in the it Bor Ders Arizona and do la Cruz started from the Kile in on his drive w raise funds far the Serra foundation for the visually de la Cruz slept a few hours each night on the raft hut averaged about is to 30 hours per Day in the he subsisted Ana liquid de la Cruz took up swimming in Earnest utter an Industrial Accident damaged his legs a dozen years several years he was accidentally shot in the leg while on a camping where Werthey he said that declaring the ism antiquities act unconstitutional would expose All National forests and National Parks and their ruins and monuments to Wanton and irreversible destitution at the bands of Sou Venir and commercial pottery Peter a Par time judge us Ting in for Robert Mccoy of declared the act unconstitutional on the grounds of the ruling came in the trial of Scott Merrill Ca a Harvard medical student charged with excavating pottery pieces a Vearold Zuni Pueblo the antiquities act says that excavate injuring or destroying any historic or prehistoric ruin or Monument or any object of Antiquity on government land is new Mexico state archaeologist Stewart Peckham termed the ruling extremely damaging and said the preservation Olar Chae logical treasures by various Federal agencies would be Indian tribes also Nave Laws to protect archaeological Sites in some tribal no indians cannot be