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...nothing to help the Democrats' chances of regaining the presidency, which, after all, is the purpose of the convention. In the ferocity of their intraparty feuding, some Democrats seem to have forgotten this. It would doubtless be soul-satisfying for some reformers to give Daley his comeuppance and expel him and his claque from Miami. But what happens then? muses a National Committee official. "Are we going to say: 'Well, Dick, we know it's going to cost us Illinois, but a rule's a rule'?" The reform-minded 1972 convention could turn...
...Notwithstanding Senator Margaret Chase Smith's proposed constitutional amendment to expel Senators who miss more than 40% of the Senate's votes [March 6], I think a simpler, more effective solution would be to dock the $42,500 salary of any errant Senator on a graduated scale. The more votes he missed, the more he would be docked. At least it might give some of us harried taxpayers struggling with our 1040s a bit of satisfaction and perhaps remind some of those political princes of the good old American tradition of no work...
...episode gave some emphasis to a proposal by Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith. She has suggested a constitutional amendment that would expel any Senator who misses more than 40% of the Senate's votes...
...total abolition of censorship. They agreed that Communist Party control in Poland must remain unquestioned, and -remembering the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia-tacitly accepted a ban on any works that would offend the Soviet Union. Instead, they set in motion machinery to make it more difficult for conservatives to expel writers from the union, and determined to press for more precise and less arbitrary censorship rules...
...that Yeh Chih-hsiung of Peking's official Hsinhua agency could cover the U.N. with a clear conscience. Peking does not want its reporters taking part in organizations that allow Taiwanese participation. In Ottawa, Hsinhua has refused to join the Parliamentary Press Gallery because its members will not expel the C.N.A...