Word: conflict-of-interest
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...last week ambitious Joe Carlino was fighting for his political life. Appearing before the assembly's Committee on Ethics and Guidance, he defended himself against conflict-of-interest charges that he had had an interest in an atom-shelter firm that stood to profit from a $100 million school and college shelter program that Carlino helped get enacted last year. The source of the charges was a political oddity: Manhattan's Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Mark Lane, 34, a shaggy lone wolf who is as popular with his liberal Yorkville and East Harlem constituency as he is unpopular with...
...vigorous defense" of Carlino, who sponsored the civil defense bill while serving as a 'director' of Lancer Industries, Inc., manufacturer of family fallout shelters, Rockefeller told the subcommittee investigating conflict-of-interest charges, "this is a matter of national survival." And nothing else...
...question of national survival must not be allowed to obscure the dangers which the shelter program entails; these can only be coped with if genuine debate is allowed to flourish. Just two days ago in Congress, a conflict-of-interest issue was raised concerning the various private research firms which double as military advisers and suppliers to the federal government...
...main value of conflict-of-interest laws is to "keep up appearance," Elliot L. Richardson '41, a Boston attorney, told the Harvard Student Bar Association Wednesday night...
...although formidable, are less important than the price paid in sluggishness of decision and action." The really effective top civil service and sub-Cabinet officials should be kept in Government service by paying them more, and better people should be attracted to temporary high-level jobs by easing conflict-of-interest laws, which Jackson termed "pointless impediments to public service...