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Watergate's most positive result may well be reform of U.S. campaign laws. Since the scandal began, scores of bills have been filed in Congress to end corrupt election practices. Without mentioning Watergate, President Nixon last week outlined his own recommendations for curbing what he delicately called "campaign abuses recently publicized and of years gone by." The eight-page message read like a list of campaign abuses charged to Nixon's own political associates. The President's main points...
Speakers at Faneuil Hall will include Tom Stanton, who headed Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group and Nick Jones, New England coordinator for the United Farm Workers...
There is, of course, no guarantee that the same fate will not befall the Arrow committee's proposals. But the department has embarked on a major attempt to reform its curriculum with the Arrow Committee but one of six committees set up to review areas of the graduate and undergraduate curriculums...
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY Organizations for Reform Now didn't seem to have much of a chance when they asked Harvard for help in opposing Arkansas Power and Light's plan to put a huge coal-burning sulfur-emitting power plant on the banks of the Arkansas River. It wasn't so much that Harvard was enamored of power, though that charge has of course been made in the past. The problem was more that Harvard had never been faced with such a request before, and Harvard's relevant committees--the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, chaired by Stanley...
...There has been an impetus to reform, imparted by the revelations of Watergate, that perhaps could not otherwise have occured with so powerful an impact in so short a period," Richardson said. He said that Watergate has reinforced the independence of the law enforcement process, and has increased sensitivity both inside and outside the government to abuses of power...