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...ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy," said New York Governor and Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Smith. The remedy is worse than the disease, replies former North Carolina Governor and now Duke University President Terry Sanford. Fearing that runaway democracy has made a shambles of the presidential selection process, Sanford last week announced the formation of a new bipartisan committee to promote changes in party rules in advance of the next election campaign. "You can't run this nation like a town meeting," said Sanford. "We should make the system less democratic and less chaotic. We must...
...Sanford's panel includes some 20 heavyweights from both major parties, among them former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, Republican Senator Robert Dole, Carter National Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss and onetime Reagan Presidential Campaign Manager John Sears. In coming months the group will hold a series of meetings around the country, under the auspices of Duke and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, inviting contributions from politicians, journalists, campaign organizers, pollsters and anybody else with ideas about ending the current chaos. The committee hopes to build enough momentum to cause the rules committees of both parties to make...
...Capra grass-roots rescue treatment right now. Along with their sister "thrifts," the 460 mutual savings S and L banks are caught in a profit squeeze that some analysts fear could lead to their collapse and ultimately to U.S. financial chaos. Says Jonathan Gray of New York's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "Like the San Andreas Fault in California, all the elements for a major quake are there, although no one can tell when it will happen...
...proposal, which both the Black Student Alliance (BSA) and Terry Sanford, president of Duke, support, requests that the center include a library, an exhibition gallery, and other rooms, and that the center serve as a facility not solely for the BSA but for the whole university...
Duke University President Terry Sanford criticized the students for not first raising the matter with him or his staff. "I am appalled at the basic discourtesy and the totally inappropriate procedures followed by the two students," he said. "At no time did they see fit to bring the matters of which they complain to my attention or to the attention of the chancellor...