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lem and the Federal government is only going to make available $50
million throughout the nation to assist in this fight. It's not going
to be nearly enough to go around and make a substantial impact.

Q. Governor, do you intend to discuss it within the State Police, this
kind of step-up?

A. I'm not certain that the State Police is the answer to the question,
particularly since we've just sent to the localities this additional money
dedicated to police protection. We find the activities of the State

Police are being seriously increased each year. We're beginning to

think about the need of more local governments to pick up the police
burdens. Now, if we are talking strictly about highly developed in-
vestigatory techniques, I think yes. I'd be amenable, responsive to a
suggestion, to involve the State Police more deeply in that kind of
work. If we're talking about the nuts and bolts of police work, I think
the localities have to pick up an increasing share of that since we've
given them the financial ability to do so.

Q. Yesterday in Baltimore, Governor, the House of Delegates Com-
mittee on Metropolitan Affairs met in an attempt to bring together
Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City and the State
Police in a unified metropolitan computerized anti-crime program. Do
you feel this program should be met on a metropolitan basis or do you
think Baltimore, for example, should go it alone and various suburban
counties go it alone?

A. No, I have always been an advocate of the metropolitan approach
to metropolitan problems, and, of course, crime is no respecter of po-
litical boundaries. During the time I was County Executive of Balti-
more County, the Metropolitan Area Council was formed and began
to function just for this purpose, the purpose of attacking all types of
metropolitan problems in some unified fashion. So I am in favor of the
metropolitan approach to these great social problems and to some
physical problems, geographies excluded, that it faces.

Q. Governor, the Baltimore Teachers' Union is going on strike to-
night. Was there any request by the City administration to add your
prestige?

A. No, I haven't been contacted, but I have been following the dis-
pute with interest. And, of course, I am conversant with some of the
issues within the dispute. I'm really not certain that the question of
money is the total question involved. And when we're talking about
exclusive bargaining agents, which seems to be something that the