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...those wondering whether post-Watergate politics have become notably cleaner, a lamentable answer emerged last week: not much. The Washington-based Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a nonpartisan election-watchdog group formed in 1954, has received 49 complaints about the 1974 campaign thus far. Said the committee's executive director, Samuel J. Archibald: "There were so many Democratic challengers tasting victory this year, and so many Republican incumbents tasting defeat - both were tempted to use the knee in the groin...
These charges against the FPC -characterized by Democratic Congressman John Moss of California as "one of the most powerful indictments of a federal regulatory agency within memory"-were contained in a study released last week by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. GAO investigators concentrated their fire on the manner in which the FPC acted under a regulation in effect since 1970. It is designed to increase supplies by permitting producers to sell gas at higher than regulated rates for 60 days. Allowing firms to go on selling high-priced gas beyond the 60-day period would require...
Soon after, Bob Rafelson was involved with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in preparing a motorcycle movie. Rafelson thought there was a good part for Nicholson, but Hopper wanted Rip Torn. Nicholson was dispatched to the set as a sort of production watchdog. He quickly became the right man at the right time. Torn dropped out of the movie, Nicholson moved in. Easy Rider wound up making $35 million. It also got Nicholson an Oscar nomination. All the scuffling was finally starting...
...fairest reviews of the journalistic situation he has read in the past 60 years. It is also one of the most alarming. The press deserved the attacks and criticisms of Will Irwin (1910) and Upton Sinclair (1920) and the muckrakers who followed, and it needs today the watchdog and gadfly activities of the new critical weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information. It therefore deserves more public confidence than the polls you quote indicate. The 1972 Watergate disclosures, it is true, were made by only a score of the members of the mass...
...professor appointed by Spínola, conditions were intolerable. The Cabinet he headed was not of his choosing, and he had no authority over it. Among other things, he insisted that the Council of State, which is dominated by the military and acts as the country's watchdog committee, draw up a constitution and elevate him to something more than a mere "Cabinet coordinator." The council agreed to let him appoint Ministers but refused him added authority...