Word: reform
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Another area for urgent institutional reform: the cumbersome way in which presidential candidates are chosen. The nominating process is an interminable circus, an obstacle course of costly and wearing primary campaigns culminating in a political convention which, whatever its advantages as spectacle, seems an unreliable way for the nation to go about selecting its leaders. The Democrats in 1972 tried to open the process to more popular participation, but the results were mixed, and the party became distracted by being bogged down in arguments over minority quotas and the like. Also obviously needed are reforms in campaign financing, to enable...
...reason behind the creeping coup was distaste at the slow pace at which the Prune Minister, Endalkachew Makonnen, 47, has been carrying out reforms. The army has agitated for change since February, when soldiers protesting poor pay and the country's feudal political system forced the resignation of then Prime Minister Aklilu Habte Wold, 62. They accepted Endalkachew as his successor and gave the new government six months to reform a country that for decades has been systematically milked from...
...Haile Selassie's closest adviser. In meetings with Endalkachew and the Emperor, the committee dictated terms that were hastily accepted. These include an imprimatur over six key ministries, including Defense and Interior; amnesty for political prisoners; plus a special session of Parliament to carry out constitutional reform...
Daniel Callahan, 43. As a writer, philosopher and executive editor of the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal until 1968, Callahan aimed his iconoclasm at such churchly concerns as priestly celibacy (against it), divorce reform (for it) and abortion (for it). Increasingly concerned that mankind's social and scientific skills were developing in a moral and ethical vacuum, he founded in 1969 the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in the New York suburb of Tarrytown. Through conferences, newsletters and testimony before legislative bodies, the 84-member institution seeks to influence policy in areas like genetic engineering, behavior...
...accept the Democratic nomination. Though virtually unknown to voters, Clark made a 1,312-mile walking tour of the state and upset a two-term Republican incumbent. An outspoken critic of old-style politics and pork-barreling, he exerted major influence in shaping the Senate's campaign reform bill, is now seeking to bring federal regulation to the often chaotic commodity exchanges...