Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public is very, very happy that there even is a disclosure form," L. Scott Harshbarger '65, counsel to the commission, said recently. "The form does require a great deal of specificity where there is a potential for conflict of interest," he added...
Despite the possibilities of success, the survival of the ethics commission as a legitimate check on official misconduct remains an open question. The 1978 Ethics Law is not the first such statute. In fact, a conflict of interest law has been in effect in the Commonwealth for 16 years. The old law, however, was breached far more often than enforced. As Harshbarger notes, "We have once again created a law and an enforcement arm. Like so many that went before it the question is--Will it go down the drain, or will it become merely an appendage or a bureaucracy...
Moose said the greatest U.S. leverage at this point lies in convincing the South African government that a settlement in Namibia is in its own interest. With a Namibian settlement, Moose said, the South Africans can be assured that "at least on that border they aren't going to be faced with a growing military confrontation, and these won't be the spillover effect of that into South Africa itself...
...three gubernatorial appointees to the Commonwealth's new commission, Vorenberg is responsible for running its bi-weekly meetings and wielding the gavel at all commission inquiries. "We have the whole field of conflict of interest, bribery and corruption in our jurisdiction," Vorenberg notes. "We intend to fulfill our intended role, for the history of this legislation makes it clear that neither the public nor the legislature would find it acceptable if we became merely a receptacle for files...
...foremost contribution of Mingus as musical thinker is surely his imaginative rethinking of traditional ideas. He gave modern jazz what it needed most--a link to its own past. The music on Me Myself An Eye expresses Mingus's interest and sympathetic understanding of the sources of black American music. The blues, gospel, church music, the spiritual ballad--these are the wellsprings of Mingus's musical heritage, and all are represented here. Side One is "Three Worlds of Drums," a 30-minute suite in which Mingus uses black music's most elemental instrument as a figure for the history...