Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unit to keep an eye on the intelligence agencies. But the fight is not over yet. This month Church plans to carry the struggle to the floor of the Senate, where he feels the younger liberals in both parties may help him carry the day. The "crucial" element of reform, says Church, is a committee that can pass on the CIA's budget and learn about its planned covert activities in advance. Adds Minnesota's Walter Mondale, chairman of the subcommittee on domestic operations: "In the past, Congress has been able to excuse its lack of vigilance...
...Socialists, with 35% of the vote, remained the strongest party, although they were down slightly from the 38% they polled last spring. Party strategists blamed the slippage on the popularity of the Communists' radical land-reform proposals among southern farmers and the hostility of right-wing refugees from Angola, who blame the Socialists for their part in the rapid decolonization there...
...quarreling, constituencies-the brokers who deal with the public and the specialists and floor traders who work inside the exchange. Needham had that support at first, but gradually lost it as his stands on crucial issues alienated one group after another. He would, in Don Quixote fashion, stand against reform long after almost everyone else had given up and prepared for the inevitable. On one occasion, Needham took a George Wallace-like vow to meet the SEC "on the courthouse steps" to block the abolition of fixed commissions-then he failed to carry out his challenge...
...committee to reform the CRR noted some of the most objectionable of the CRR's problems: its power to deny students who come before it the right to legal counsel, its power to admit hearsay evidence against a defendant, its Faculty domination, the broad discretion allowed the University in defining a punishable offense, and the lack of a separate board of appeal. On all these counts, students agreed that the CRR needed reform...
...academic community where students should be free to express their disagreement with University policy through political protests. The CRR should be abolished, and students should continue to boycott it as they have since 1971. Short of that, the Faculty should adopt the changes proposed by the ad hoc reform committee. Those changes, while they may make the CRR more equitable in practice, will not alter the principles of repression that lie behind...