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Eidenberg's ascension to a White House post followed a long career of "non-partisan"--a distinction he stresses--political activities. Born in 1939, he grew up in New York City and majored in political science at the University of Wisconsin. Before graduating in 1962, he became active in campus-based politics and in the civil rights movement...
Policy Review (circ. 10,000). Editor John O'Sullivan, 38, describes this non-partisan quarterly from the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington as "broadly conservative." Yet besides articles on such subjects as curbing federal spending, it prints viewpoints from left of center, like Senator Edward Kennedy's 1979 pitch for normalization of relations with China...
...Kept the Secrets where Helms becomes emotional, where he seems anything more than the competent paper pusher who keeps things moving without rocking the boat. Although it is commonly recognized that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...
...member of the non-partisan North-Eastern caucus which is designed to offset the Congressional voting power of such sun-belt states as California, Cohen said he has had to vote against his caucus and "go with my conscious" in some matters where he felt that the overall Federal benefits would outweigh his regional interests...
Chaired by Harvard Law professor James Vorenberg '49, the commission consists of three gubernatorial appointees, one selection of the attorney general and a fifth member chosen by the secretary of state. Currently, one Independent, two Democrats, and two Republicans hold commission seats. Despite its non-partisan composition, however, many state officials still view the commission with a mixture of fear and distrust. "Some people here perceive us as a horror story imposed on the legislature," David Brickman, commission member, explained recently. "But we are not a band of J. Edgar Hoover Jr.'s and we will do our job professionally...