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...points and would not allow the Steering Committee, as a body, to slander his intentions. It is, however, imposible to prevent individual Steering Committee members from directing snide comments at their ideological opponents. Even I, despite my work at PBH and at Perspective, have been the recipient of such indirect comments. These comments, however, have never been a group effort...
...contributions as thinly-veiled influence purchasing by private interests. Common Cause favors strict limits on PAC donations, restrictions on campaign spending, alternative campaign funding resources and an end to the "soft" money system in which political organizations not limited in the donations they receive can give candidates indirect political help...
...those soldiers most exposed to the herbicide and compare their cancer rates with those in the ) unexposed population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since the CDC settled for an indirect study, many veterans believe the results are of questionable value...
What makes the wrangling particularly frustrating is that, two weeks ago, Shamir appeared ready to sign on to the Washington meeting. But last week Shamir succumbed to pressure from Likud hard-liners, who argue that Baker's conditions will put Jerusalem up for negotiation and allow an indirect role for the P.L.O. He demanded that East Jerusalem's 140,000 Arabs not vote or run in elections and warned that Israel would walk away from any negotiations that appeared to involve the P.L.O...
Shamir has hopelessly encumbered Baker's formula, which in its own convoluted fashion aimed to grant the P.L.O. leadership an indirect voice while enabling Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. was not a party to the talks. Labor has vowed that if the Cabinet does not endorse Baker's formula, it will pull out of the coalition. So much for simple four-step peace plans...