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...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...
...your article on the political clout of organized labor [April 11], you incorrectly labeled Common Cause "the liberal lobby." Common Cause members come from all political ideologies and parties; we are a nonpartisan group...
...Americans, some of them German immigrants. His political critics chided Lorenz for using Help America to further his own political ambitions. But it seemed they were mainly annoyed about not getting the idea first. They had to admit that Lorenz's idea struck a soft spot, one as nonpartisan as the weather...
...suspicion both outside and inside that it might be expected to be a partisan arm of the Executive Branch. The purpose of my appointment and my taking the job was to show that that was not to be true, that the department could operate in a highly professional, nonpartisan way. Every action I took, so far as I could tell, was toward that point. Parts of the department had been set up so they reacted to calls from the White House, and this made the department vulnerable to manipulation. The department is much more one department now, and the White...