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There are serious objections to Moynihan's nonfault Government insurance scheme, however tidy it sounds. For one thing, it would be fought hard by the oil industry, which aches to repeal the present gas tax. For another, it might be so financially painless that U.S. drivers would tend to worry less about their liability for accidents. And Government insurance might become a political football as legislators vied to curb needed rate raises...
...every attempted reform has failed. In 1962, a commission appointed by President Kennedy recommended a series of modest reforms for presidential campaigns-tax relief for small donors, repeal of limitations on individual donations and interstate committee expenditures, tighter reporting and a registry of election finance to help enforce the rules. Congress ignored the whole thing. So did Lyndon Johnson, until 1966, when Louisiana Senator Russell Long somehow bulled through a new law allowing federal tax payers to check a box on their returns authorizing a $1 gift for presidential candidates-the proceeds (a possible $60 million the first year...
...product of any drinking culture, but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner. Since 1956, the American Medical Association has recognized the alcoholic as a medical problem. The National Crime Commission appointed by President Johnson two years ago has recommended the repeal of all public drunkenness laws, which generate one-third of criminal arrests...
Guttmacher asked for liberalization of present abortion laws, but not for outright repeal. "To allow abortion on demand," he said, "would relegate man to the status of the bull...
...same time, New Yorkers slapped down a new constitution to replace the state's outmoded 1894 charter and its tangle of 162 amendments. The proposed charter, drawn by a Democratic-dominated constitutional convention, lost by 3,361,000 votes to 1,308,000, largely because it incorporated repeal of a prohibition on state aid to church-run private schools. The Roman Catholic hierarchy vigorously backed the constitution, whose advocates spent more than $500,000 on hard-sell advertising that succeeded only in opening half-healed religious wounds. Governor Rockefeller, who split with other Republican leaders to give tepid endorsement...