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...party chieftains, they have tended to listen more to the folks back home. Predictably, however, lobbyists have skillfully found ways to manipulate so- called grass-roots support. Direct-mail outfits, armed with computer banks that are stocked with targeting groups, can create "instant constituencies" for special-interest bills. To repeal a 1982 provision requiring tax withholding on dividends and interest, the small banks and thrifts hired a mass-mailing firm to launch a letter-writing campaign that flooded congressional offices with some 22 million pieces of mail. The bankers' scare tactics were dubious--they managed to convince their depositors that...
Harvard can have an immediate positive impact on the plight of the homeless by flexing its not inconsiderable political muscle to lobby the City Council for the repeal of the law. Harvard, too, has a large obligation to the city's homeless...
...auspices of one of the social service organizations. The University has an obligation, both institutionally and as a large collection of concerned citizens, to step forward to do what it can to solve a community problem. Harvard's best first step would be to join the fight to repeal this law and help to clear the way for more shelters. Further steps will require more time, study and, above all, a firm committment on the part of the University and all its members to help the homless people in the area...
Fund raising also forces state legislators into an undue preoccupation with relatively minor issues that are backed by contributors willing to spend heavily. These are known cynically as "juice bills" for the cash that can | be squeezed out of them. One prime example: repeal of unitary taxation, which would save foreign companies operating in California as much as $500 million in state corporate taxes. Strongly backed by Japanese and British interests, the bill has been debated in each of the past three sessions but has yet to come to a vote. Insiders complain that legislators are dawdling because they have...
...Malacanang Palace; instead she would open the residence for public wedding ceremonies. Now she sounds much less like a Filipina flower child. In her Rotary speech last week, Aquino laid out a program for lifting Marcos' "institutionalized dictatorship" that included an appeal to the Marcos-controlled National Assembly to repeal the presidential powers of preventive detention and return to the rule of habeas corpus. If the Assembly balks, she will use the rule- by-decree Amendment 6 to repeal those powers herself. Aquino would then work for a series of constitutional changes that would finally eliminate the dangerous Amendment...