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...right-wing organizations by forming PACs of their own. Among the new groups is Progressive PAC (ProPAC), which will spend $150,000 in this election, most of it having gone into now abandoned negative campaigns against conservatives. Another is Democrats for the '80s (nicknamed PamPAC for Founder Pamela Harriman), which is spending $500,000. One of the richest ideological PACs is that of the National Organization for Women, which hopes to donate more than $2 million this year to candidates who support its feminist positions and who oppose Reaganomics. Says newly elected NOW President Judy Goldsmith: "We will proceed...
...gift was prompted by Harriman's concern for growing weaknesses in the field nationally, according to reports in The New York Times...
Goldman emphasized that Harvard desperately needs "someone to come along and do for us what Averell Harriman did for Columbia...
Columbia University this week received an unusual $1 million grant for Soviet studies from W. Averell Harriman, a former New York governor and ambassador to Moscow...
...Kovler used his contacts as a former congressional and Commerce Department aide to start organizing a Roosevelt centennial committee, which ended up including such luminaries as Senator Edward Kennedy, Diplomatic Troubleshooter Averell Harriman, Roosevelt Aide Benjamin Cohen, Poet Archibald MacLeish and the three surviving Roosevelt sons. Kovler even lobbied an appropriation of $200,000 through Congress to help promote a series of celebrations later this month. In addition to the joint session of Congress, the events will include these...