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...eleven days before Kentucky's, word seeped out that the Justice Department might intervene on behalf of antibusing forces in an appeal against a court-imposed plan for Boston's schools. Since both Michigan and; Kentucky have been wracked by violent busing disputes, the disclosure had every earmark of a political ploy to benefit Candidate Gerald Ford...
...election, if a sufficient pool of tax money has been built up, each such party's candidate would be allotted $20 million in public funds to finance a campaign. The money would come from the income tax check-off system now in effect, by which each taxpayer can earmark $1 of the tax he is paying for this purpose. The check-off fund is expected to total at least $64 million by 1976. Beyond the $20 million spending ceiling, the state and national committees of a candidate's party can support his campaign at a rate...
...punished for transgressing it. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to remedy the old law's defects by insisting on more thorough disclosure of the sources of campaign money. Another 1971 act took the first step toward public financing with a provision that enabled taxpayers to earmark $1 (or $2 on joint returns) on income tax forms for the party of their choice. But President Nixon gutted the provision by giving it little publicity and requiring taxpayers to fill out a separate tax form. The checkoff had the potential of raising $113 million; it raised $4 million...
...nation can accept what the U. S. government is doing to the peasant people of Indochina-or any other people-and long survive. Moral or spiritual power is the earmark, the distinguished characteristic of a human being. Once this is destroyed, a people are no longer humane. We are nearing that point now. This I feel deep down inside...
Better Delivery. In the health section of his message, Johnson abandoned last year's proposal for a $10 billion, ten-year loan program for hospital construction. He did earmark $1.5 billion of the total $12.4 billion health budget for biomedical research and called for the training of 1,000,000 more health workers in the next decade. But his chief emphasis was on achieving "better delivery of health care" through such measures as using doctors' offices for many examinations that are now conducted in hospitals...