Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plans for the massive new fundraising campaign have already put the spotlight on increasing coordination between Harvard's nine faculties, but the financial report also stressed that theme...
...early October, it was revealed that Gregory A. Johnson '72, the graduate secretary of PBHA, allegedly attempted to funnel a $150 contribution from PBHA to the campaign of then-Cambridge City Council candidate Kenneth E. Reeves '72, a former PBHA committee head. Students charged that Johnson used a blank voucher signed by the student heads of the Academy Homes committee and submitted a fraudulent receipt to justify the expenditure...
Johnson denied any intentional deceit in the incident, saying that the misinformation on the receipt was an honest mistake. Despite his alibi, Johnson acknowledged that he had intended to divert money to Reeves' campaign function, saying "I tried to do it in a way that would be legal...
...example, some PBHA members have charged that the undergraduate directors of the Academy Homes committee actively went along with Johnson's plan to funnel money to Reeves' campaign event, despite an absolute prohibition on committees making political contributions...
Charges of corruption have been the opposition's strongest electoral weapon, particularly allegations that officials in Gandhi's government accepted some $50 million in kickbacks from the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. But Gandhi has also been derided for indecisive leadership, remoteness, inept campaign slogans, rising prices and, especially in rural areas, failing to deliver a better life. Yet Congress has scored points by painting the opposition coalition as inherently unstable...