Word: reform
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...EXPRESSION "political reform" has positive connotations: it implies increasing the responsiveness and integrity of the political system. In the light of this meaning, Mayor Kevin White's proposed changes for Boston's charter--originally derived from the recommendations of his Committee for Boston--should be called manipulations or at least alterations. Slightly amended but approved by the city council, the main proposals...
THERE ARE RIBBONS of reform around White's Christmas package for Boston but they are as much concessions from a politician as they are improvements for the city. If he had truly wanted to reform Boston's character White should have forgotten about partisan elections and recommended district elections for the city council along with his school committee reforms. Atkins believes districts will lead to "fanatical parochialism," but Representative Frank points to the cooperation and comparatively higher quality of leadership present in Boston's State House delegation which is elected by districts...
...officials are relieved that the nominee is not James Schlesinger, who "axed a lot of people" during his brief tenure in 1973. But mostly, Sorensen's appointment is causing cries of anguish in the intelligence community, which is leary of a new wave of investigations and proposals for reform. Says one intelligence official: "He is soft on the conscientious objectors out of the world of Jane Fonda, and I ask: How is Carter going to line up strength abroad for the U.S. with a Sorensen...
Aging Godfathers. Fukuda's biggest effort will be to rejuvenate his broad-based, pro-American, free-enterprise party, which has governed Japan continuously since 1955. As a first step toward a comeback, Fukuda intends to name a committee to study party reform. One problem it will surely discuss is how to curb the clout of the half-dozen major factions-led by aging, godfather-like powerbrokers-that have traditionally controlled the L.D.P. Fukuda has promised to dissolve his own 78-man bloc as an example to others. Yet his first appointments to top party and Cabinet posts last week...
Cool Relations. Party reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...