Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Submission to "God Alone" Newly exiled Georgi Vins speaks for Soviet Reform Baptists...
...return for two spies sent back to the Soviet Union, has presented the world with a new sort of religious witness. The stocky preacher and poet, who spent seven of the past 15 years in Siberia, is the first leader of the tens of thousands of breakaway "Reform Baptists" to reach the West. Fourteen years ago, they formally seceded from the government-recognized All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in order to fight for more religious freedom than Moscow permits. In an interview with TIME'S John Kohan, Vins painted an extraordinary portrait of a beleaguered religious movement...
...ironic that in passing the campaign "reform laws of the 1970s, Congress claimed to be cleaning up politics and removing special interest influence. In some ways, the result has been quite the opposite. With political parties becoming less effective fund raising agents for candidates, and with the $1000 limit on individual contributions, corporate PACs have become a major source of funding in Congressional campaigns. And the room for further growth is tremendous. Two thirds of the 500 largest industrial firms have yet to form a PAC. Business is quickly leaving the once dominant labor union PACs far behind...
...Council, in fact, considered grading reform as a possible solution when it reviewed alternatives last month, but rejected it in favor of transcript tampering. Perhaps they should think again...
...proposals, which must be debated in the all-white South African Parliament but are almost certain to become public policy, are the product of a government-appointed commission on labor reform headed by Nicholas Wiehahn, a labor law expert who once worked on the railways as an apprentice stoker-a job that has always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan...