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...organizations that monitor human-rights abuses issued reports last week that will make it more difficult for the Administration to win over Congress. Americas Watch, a private nonpartisan group that monitors human-rights abuses in the hemisphere, contended that the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group, employs "the deliberate use of terror." The Washington Office on Latin America, a coalition of religious and academic groups, issued a report citing at least 28 murders, rapes, assaults and instances of torture committed by the contras...
...page report of the special counsel, Washington Lawyer Jacob Stein, cleared Meese of any criminal acts but did not pass judgment on the ethics of his conduct. Common Cause, a nonpartisan public interest lobby, claimed that the findings showed Meese's actions to be unethical. The Common Cause complaint, in turn, prompted David Martin, director of the ethics office, to ask his staff to examine the case. Two civil service attorneys, F. Gary Davis and Nancy Feathers, wrote a memo last month that cited three "ethics violations" by Meese and one incident that presented an "appearance problem...
...organizations, including the AFL-CIO and a number of conservative public-interest lobbies, funneled money into Grenada to heighten civic awareness and get out the vote. Local taxi drivers were paid as much as $130 on election day for carrying citizens to the polls. The assistance was nonpartisan, but the enlarged turnout probably helped Blaize to defeat the remnants of Gairy's Boss Tweed-style political machine...
There are relatively few high-profile gubernatorial races in 1984, in part because only 13 states are picking a chief executive and most incumbents running for re-election are safe. One who is not, however, is Washington's John Spellman, 57, a Republican. In that state's nonpartisan primary in September, so many Republicans crossed over to vote for Democrat Booth Gardner, 48, the little-known chief executive of Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A...
None of this is coming cheap. Common Cause, the nonpartisan public-interest lobby, published studies last week showing that the combined cost of this year's Senate and House races alone will come to slightly more than $250 million, or an average of somewhat over $3.4 million for each Senate race and about $300,000 per House contest. Moreover, according to the Federal Election Commission, contenders for the Senate are spending about twice as much this year as they did six years ago, when the same seats were last contested...