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...refuse to amend the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, though not a single person has been convicted under its provisions. Big contributors are scarcely deterred by a prohibition against giving more than $5,000 to a single candidate; they simply spread their largesse among several committees bearing such deceptively nonpartisan titles as Americans for Greater Public Awareness or Committee for Political Integrity...
...SEATO and CENTO alliances. John Kennedy, it is true, rushed $80 million in war supplies to New Delhi when the Sino-Indian border war erupted in 1962. But, though Washington stopped arms deliveries to both countries when the Pakistan-India war erupted in 1965, the mantle of nonpartisan peacemaker went to the Soviets, who sponsored the truce talks at Tashkent...
Common Cause claims a membership of 191,000, paying a minimum of $15 per person per annum. Gardner's liberal and determinedly nonpartisan "third force" has a projected budget for its second year of $3,800,000, of which roughly a third is earmarked for membership expansion. Aided by word-of-mouth recruitment, which already accounts for 25% of the organization's new members, the rolls could swell to more than 300,000 by next year. They could also shrink, and in that sense Common Cause faces a continued test. Says Gardner: "Our record is fairly well known...
...colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates contented themselves with Magic Marker signs and mimeographed slips reminiscent of student council elections. The atmosphere was distinctly nonpartisan; most of the loudspeaker cars simply urged the people to get out and vote...
...more crucial. Within its limits, the Warren Commission served to mute much of the national agitation that ensued after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet Nam War. Some Americans are skeptical; Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that it would not reduce national tensions simply because "there are no neutral people left in the country." Still, Americans must find some means of confronting what they have...