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Vice President George Bush made some pertinent points when he questioned the appropriateness of the Democrats’ “instant criticism” of President Reagan’s recent Central American policy speech. Speaking in Washington to the American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, Bush contrasted Republican support for President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis with the quick Democratic blast… Continue reading ‘Instunt Criticism’ May Have Lusting Eff-acts

Congressman Jim Hansen’s return of $70,000 to the U.S Treasury from his office expense allotment is a leadership example his colleagues would do well to follow – not only in their own office budgets but the nation’s budget as well. The $70,000 Hansen put back in the federal coffer is about 15.9 percent of his… Continue reading People Praise Hansen for Move

Out of the wrangling by U. S. senators over their salaries and outside income has come a highly interesting proposal for reform of the congressional compensation and work arrangement. Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R.-Tenn. called for limiting annual sessions of Congress to a maximum seven mont.hs and cutting salaries to $36,000. In… Continue reading Senate Needs Reform, Not Money

The State of Utah’s computerized program to collect from defaulting deb tors through withholding income tax refund checks has logged considerable success in its four-plus years of operation. Indeed it miglht offer some ideas for of er states involved with the perennial problem of de inquent bills. Called ‘Gotcha’ for lack of a more formal… Continue reading Utah ‘G0tchu’ Project Successful

As a voting citizen, have you ever experienced the “hollowness” that comes from knowing absolutely that your ballot in the presidential election does not matter? Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore. applied that term in describing the plight of hundreds of thousands of westerners who have “suffered a systematic devaluation of their votes” because of early television… Continue reading Western Voters Need Protection

As Republican Rep. Jack Kemp of New York told Congress recently, continued use and abuse of drugs and alcohol by young people is “more than an individual family crisis – it’s a national tragedy.” If the congressman’s information is correct, two-thirds of all American youngsters experiment with drugs and alcohol before they finish high school.… Continue reading One Town Against Drugs

The national election process, so vital in America’s democratic society, has shown signs of deterioration in the past few decades. It needs a shot in the arm maybe some overhauling. Voter turnout has declined in every presidential election since 1960. That year 62.8 percent went to the po s – not exactly impressive even then.… Continue reading Stop Voter Borticibotioun Decline

Because it’s usually the newspapers that lead the fight to preserve freedom of the press, some people tend to consider the First Amendment guarantee a special privilege for the news media. This is not so, of course. Freedom of the press means the right to a free flow of responsible information and opinions to the… Continue reading Freedom of Press Helps AII

When Congress adjourned without acting to lring down staggering federal deficits, it followed a road paved with the good intentiors but quest.ionable actions of many pre. vious Congresses which have i allowed the national debt to more than quadniple in the past 20 years. : The lawmakers temporarily pulled thermelves out of the current fiscal… Continue reading U5, peb; Rumpcmtly Out of Line

Solidarity, the Polish experiment in worker democracy, was “killed” under a new unionism law adopted by Poland’s Parliament-but it obviously has a very live “ghost.” Unrest has been evident in intermittent strikes, riots and demonstrations since the repressive action Oct. 8. Recently 10,000 people crowded a small Nowa I-luta cemetery for the burial of a… Continue reading Solidarity Isn’t Dead Yet