Word: nonpartisan
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DIED. William Yandell Elliott, 82, courtly professor of history and political science at Harvard (1925-63); in Haywood, Va. A nonpartisan presidential adviser who served as vice chairman of the War Production Board during World War II, Elliott lectured a generation of undergraduates in Government I on the evils of totalitarianism and the need for a strongly armed America, as well as supervised the dissertations of Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Henry Kissinger, among others. "Whatever I have achieved," wrote the yet-to-be Secretary of State in 1963, "I owe importantly to his inspiration...
Traditional W.C.C. refugee assistance, though, is provided by the council's nonpartisan and respected relief commission. Funds are given through the antiracism program to make a political statement. In an explanatory document, the World Council attacked Rhodesia's so-called internal settlement between blacks and whites, arguing that it "leaves the illegal white minority regime in effective control and gives it a veto over real change for the next decade." As it happens, two of the four leaders of the Rhodesian regime are W.C.C.-related black clergymen, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole, themselves recipients of past grants...
...supporters in Illinois have adopted a savvy approach to politicking. The usually nonpartisan League of Women Voters has joined the ERA backers. The women of the League have hired three of the state's toughest lobbyists, one of them, Gerald Shea, a former Illinois house majority leader who has close ties to the Chicago Democratic machine...
...bill as "the moral equivalent of war." But the Administration has stumbled so badly in trying to get the program through Congress that the campaign has come to be known by the biting acronym MEOW. A major roadblock during the past five months has been a bitter and largely nonpartisan free-for-all on Capitol Hill over the removal or retention of Government price controls for natural gas. Last week, just a year after Carter first invited the nation into the trenches, the gas deadlock finally appeared to have been broken and the energy program to have been given...
Liberals Heller, Okun, Pechman and Nathan all urge some kind of "incomes policy"-essentially, presidential pressure on companies and unions to hold down wage and price boosts. Conservatives argue that that policy would only cover up inflation, and Grove, a nonpartisan who tends to liberal views, this time agrees. Wage-price guidelines, he thinks, would actually speed up inflation temporarily. Companies and unions would be tempted to get all they could while the guidelines were being formulated...