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Peretz went to Paris January 8 with Sam Brown, co-chairman of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, to arrange the meeting for Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn...
Stray Millions. The proposals for a uniform departmental budget cut, a pay-raise moratorium and personal salary reductions got nowhere. Nixon, however, made it clear that Government spending had to be cut down as close to $200 billion as possible. But snipping out $3 billion or so, even from a spending schedule of $203.5 billion, is far from easy. Expenditures such as debt service and pensions are mandated by law. Programs in other areas had already been subjected to the big squeeze. Yet the presidential directive insisted that more gristle be found. Higher excise taxes on consumer products-which Congress...
...thus easily shelved or forgotten. In arousing hopes that they often cannot fulfill, they contribute to a further erosion of confidence in democratic institutions at a time when they are already facing sustained criticism. After serving on the Violence Commission, U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. urged a moratorium on all commissions to solve social problems. There had been too much study, he complained, and too little action. Of course, if the President were to act on this advice, he would probably start by appointing a brand-new commission to study the feasibility of abolishing all commissions. The commissioners...
...Hate Mail. Chris and Mike differ on the merits of the younger generation. "But oh Jesus," says Wallace, "don't get me started on that. I was impressed by the Eugene McCarthy kids and Sam Brown [the Moratorium organizer], but too many of the young want to recreate the world without having lived long enough or thought hard enough." As his evenhanded broadcasts might suggest, Wallace is not strongly partisan and is close to the center ideologically. He is registered as an independent and says: "I have voted for Democrats. Republicans, Liberals and one Conservative in the past...
...Vietnam Moratorium Committee observed yesterday as "Moratorium Day," focusing on Dr. King's strong opposition to the war and his philosophy of nonviolence...