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...Also indicted were two Boyle aides, James Kmetz, on the same charges, and John Owens, the union's secretary-treasurer, on charges of conspiracy and making an illegal campaign contribution. According to the indictment, checks were made out to "cash" to tap the funds of Labor's Non-Partisan League, the U.M.W.'s political arm created by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. The funds were then allegedly transferred to political candidates in the guise of personal contributions. The biggest slice, $30,000, went to a 1968 Democratic fund-raising dinner for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey...
...rise to power, he went on, had been a non-partisan one. He said he knew George Papadopoulos, the leading colonel in the junta, through mutual friends, and that after some discussion, Papadopoules-who held the Ministry of Education among his many positions-appointed him as his deputy minister in 1968. Sioris succeeded to the Ministry when Papadopoulos relinquished it last year...
...question of whether we can wipe out hunger, but when, or if we want to . . . In Massachusetts no one cares. Maurice Donabue, the one man who supported action, no longer holds a state office. "Biggest problem to date, Mayer says, has been keeping the hunger issue non-partisan. He does not consider himself part of the Nixon Administration and says, "The minute hunger becomes a political issue we are dead...
...another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern. It was little more than 20 years ago that a Democratic Administration under Harry Truman and key Senate Republicans led by Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan established a remarkable, non-partisan relationship of trust that permitted such historic undertakings as the Marshall Plan and the NATO treaty, and gained for them widespread public support. This kind of open policymaking can be done again, but only through more and continued emphasis on full, non-self-serving disclosures. Only thus can increased...
...entranced his admirers by blasting unruly students, the decline of "moral" instruction and busing for school desegregation. Yet Rafferty had fallen out of favor with many Republicans two years ago, when his blustery senatorial campaign lost the seat to a Democrat. Last March fiscal conservatives were dismayed by a non-partisan study that cited waste and inefficiency in Rafferty's department...