Word: reform
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Maybe the intership program need not be totally scrapped. But to rush along the existing internships to aid the privileged establishment in South Africa under the false label of reform is at best a cynical ploy against student activists and at worst another brick in the wall of the apartheid state...
...GROUPS IN American politics today come closer to Madison's definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...
...Senators David Boren (D-Okla.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) will ask their colleagues to place a cap on their newfound wellspring of campaign funds. With Senate PAC contributions up 385 percent between 1976 and 1984 and with special interests using their influence to help bury this measure, PAC reform seems as likely a prospect this spring as real tax reform. But if this bill fails, the spectre of quid pro quo campaign contributions will further haunt American politics...
Just look at the Congressional committees currently handling tax reform. Think they're likely to vote to restrict PAC action? Members collected $3.7 million in payoffs from the tax loophole lobby in the first six months of 1985, a non-election year. With PACs pouring $5000 check after $5000 check into the coffers of committee members, it's difficult to imagine a fair, loopholefree tax plan emerging from Congress...
While the reform plan of Boren-Goldwater is far from complete, the amendment is the only piece of viable campaign reform legislation introduced in this session of Congress. The bill will remove some, but not nearly all, of the hurdles a challenger faces and lessen the extent to which incumbents are beholden to the special interests...