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...code to have real impact, it must provide the machinery for scrutinizing members' private incomes and criteria for judging the legitimacy of non-Government earnings. There is widespread resistance in Congress to any such reform, in part because many members fear that their financial affairs could become grist for their political opponents and for muckrakers. There is also the practical problem of deciding how far to go in demanding the disclosure of private income. Should Congress, for example, have the right to delve into the accounts of members' relatives? Without that right, it would have a hard time...
...century King Gustav III) to exotic Massachusetts and to dramatize instead the assassination of the "Governor of Boston." Conducted appropriately by Boston's Erich Leinsdorf, this version stars the lush vocal beauty of Leontyne Price, supported by a mostly American cast, including Robert Merrill, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist. Carlo Bergonzi provides appropriate Italianate grace as the doomed governor...
Uncertain Future. Mao's moves provided new grist for China-watchers from Hong Kong to Harvard. At a Washington meeting of China experts last week, American University's Ralph Powell insisted that much of the trouble stems from Mao's idealistic demand that Red China's leaders should "act like guerrilla revolutionaries." Said Powell: "Mao is a romantic, and they are a bunch of bureaucrats. They don't want to oppose the old man; they just wish he would go away and leave them alone to run their own provinces." Berkeley's Robert Scalapino...
Rusk received some assistance in his own confrontation from South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, who wrote a 1,300-word letter to Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, warning that the Arkansan's "unjust" criticism of the U.S. war effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged...
Everything is grist. He writes of his wife's encounter with poison ivy or of his own desperate search for the family cat during a blizzard; he tells how to talk on the party line without revealing secrets to eavesdroppers, devotes a whole page of sensitive text and pictures to the juvenile joy of playing in a hay-filled barn. Bowman prefers to think of himself as "a sort of would-be farmer with typewriter...