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...candidate can set up dozens of committees and then disclaim knowledge of what they spent on his behalf. In fact, nobody has ever been prosecuted for evading the reporting rules. How could they be? Nobody checks or audits even the acknowledged expenses. As for banned contributions, companies can easily lend favored candidates their company planes or public relations experts and give cash through individual executives. And nothing stops individuals from $5,000 gifts (pros make it $3,000 to avoid gift-tax reports) to as many committees as they please. Meanwhile, unions give via so-called independent affiliates, such...
...formation of the Radcliffe Policy Committee by Mrs. Bunting is not a solution to anyone's problems. We who were on the Hunger Strike last spring and by whose "inspiration" Mrs. Bunting was moved to from the HPC would like to disclaim any credit, and further to outline our objections...
...wonder the white man so often grows cranky, fanciful, freakish, loony, violent; how else respond to a paradox which requires, with full majesty of law behind it, that he deny the very reality of a people whose multitude approaches and often exceeds his own; that he disclaim the existence of those whose human presence has marked every acre of the land, every hamlet and crossroad and city and town, and whose humanity, however inflexibly denied, is daily evidenced to him like a heartbeat in loyalty and wickedness, madness and hilarity and mayhem and pride and love...
After listing such names as "Air Force Diet," "Astronaut Diet," "Airlines Pilot Diet," "Grapefruit Diet," "Low Carbohydrate Diet" and "Drinking Man's Diet," Dr. Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them." The best program for the person who is overweight, he added, is simply to eat less. "There is little if any evidence for the success of any method which does not restrict calorie intake to a level below body energy needs...
Meanwhile, Lord Harlech, off skiing in Colorado last week with his wife and three of his five children, was pondering his own future. If he wants to return to active Conservative Party politics-and friends think he may-he will have to disclaim his title. He has until next Feb. 14, the first anniversary of his father's death, to make up his mind under Britain's 1963 Peerage Act whether he wishes to remain Lord Harlech or go back to being just plain David Ormsby Gore...