Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either without access to all crucial facts, including the reasoning upon which the final decision is based. Harvard's paternalism deprives students of the learning experience inherent in helping decide, reinforces immaturity because students are not fully responsible for their decisions and are not encouraged to analyze and reform the environment around them, and separates the students and the institution...
...civil rights, South Africa, and student power he was one of the pioneers in bringing his practical political style to bear. The Kennedys and the McCarthys later followed his trail markers leading to new liberal outposts. New York writer Jack Newfield likes to think of his fellow Manhattan Reform Democrat as "the last and best liberal, one who always goes into revolutionary situations, but yet always stays a liberal...
Rebel Report. From his first day in office three years ago, Frei has been hounded in Congress by a coalition of Communists, leftists and Socialists that has blocked almost all of his major reform legislation. Now the far left is making a determined grab for the reins of his own Christian Democratic Party. Six months ago, a rebel faction led by Jacques Chonchol, Frei's director of agricultural development, managed to ram through a party resolution permitting Castro's chief subversion agency in the Hemisphere, OLAS, to set up a branch office right in Santiago...
...routine analysis of its future course, Chonchol prepared a 57,000-word report that read almost like the Communist Manifesto. It recommended tight government control of economic and industrial activities, nationalization of all banks, insurance companies, electric power corporations, and communications companies as well as a far-reaching agrarian reform law that would do away with all large landowners. Embarrassed by the report, Frei tried to shrug it off casually as a meaningless "scrap of paper...
...every attempted reform has failed. In 1962, a commission appointed by President Kennedy recommended a series of modest reforms for presidential campaigns-tax relief for small donors, repeal of limitations on individual donations and interstate committee expenditures, tighter reporting and a registry of election finance to help enforce the rules. Congress ignored the whole thing. So did Lyndon Johnson, until 1966, when Louisiana Senator Russell Long somehow bulled through a new law allowing federal tax payers to check a box on their returns authorizing a $1 gift for presidential candidates-the proceeds (a possible $60 million the first year...