Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Politics Robert Sandoz' "Republicans to the Right" and Josh Muravchik's...
...The ones who stand for a clear position—Fred Harris, for example, or Lloyd Bentsen—are too divisive...
...Washington, D.C...
...have introduced a bill for a mandatory full employment policy that I believe deserves strong support...
...Consequently, the Democrats will probably turn to Hubert H. Humphrey, the tried and true, and the exhausted...
...New York City Max H. FRANKLE The discussion by Judge Frankel and Gary P. Naftalis of the history and development of the grand jury, and its present operations and practices, clearly indicates the need for grand jury reform...
...Indeed, the two articles may reveal the decline of the Republicans and the Democrats...
...Federal intervention is required, and Senator Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn...
...Eight bills have been introduced in the House relating to reforms, and they have been referred to my committee...
...The current 8.3 per cent unemployment figure is a serious understatement of the problem...
...That is, the internal pragmatic compromises within the two parties will have produced candidates no more realistic, in terms of the current political mood, than the ideological favorites who are normally electoral disasters...
...We could save most of the billions we are now spending for unemployment benefits, aid to mothers with dependent children and food stamps if we really had full employment at decent wages...
...Politics Robert Sandoz' "Republicans to the Right" and Josh Muravchik's "Democrats to the Center" (NL, November 24) demonstrate the present predicament of the parties...
...This compromise will be merely a holding action—a compromise analogous to the Republicans' selecting Richard Nixon in 1968...
...Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary Full Employment Daniel P. Moynihan's article ("America's Crisis of Confidence," NL, October 27) underlines the need to attack unemployment...
...I am certain that not only the legal profession but every person concerned with the effect of our judicial system on individual and collective rights in our democracy must welcome its publication as one of the finest contributions Tur New Leader has made in this confused period...
...But turning to the Right would no doubt be suicidal, and after much fuss and furor, the Republicans can be expected to settle for the obfuscating blandness of the incumbent...
...Washington, D.C...
...Harris Northrop The Grand Jury I read with great interest the special issue on "The Grand Jury: An Institution on Trial" by Judge Marvin E. Frankel and Gary P. Naftalis (NL, November 10...
...Those more pragmatic in their approach?Birch Bayh or Morris Udall—are colorless, and unlikely to rouse much enthusiasm among the Democratic rank and file, let alone throughout the nation as a whole...
...In 1976, therefore, we will be offered a choice in which "the giving famishes the craving...
...Ford is a Nixon surrogate, albeit a clean one...
...The Democrats must choose among a Medusa's raft of contenders...
...Furthermore, unemployment is likely to get worse in the badly hit construction industry as cities, counties and states cut back to avoid New York's financial difficulties...
...It does not include the partially unemployed or those who have become so discouraged that they have stopped looking for work...
...The Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International Law, chaired by Representative Joshua Eilberg, will be conducting hearings on these bills early in 1976, and will then report out legislation to the full committee...
...Though Ford and Humphrey represent different things, together they reveal the insubstantiality of the political parties, for they will each be running as a conciliatory nod to the U.S...
...An empty man, he lacks direction or persuasiveness...
...It is hoped and expected that grand jury reform legislation will be reported out of our committee to the full House and that it will be passed during this session...
...ALFRED BAKER LEWIS...
...and Representative Augustus Hawkins (D.-Cal...
...We also badly need more child-care centers so that mothers now receiving assistance under the Aid to Dependent Children program would have a safe place to leave their children while they work...
...Peter W. Rodino Jr...
...Riverside, Conn...
...He satisfies no one, and the party, as a party, a faction with a genuine philosophy, yearns for Reagan...
...He floats in the air, ignoring the Left, appeasing the Right, clutching at a nonexistent Center...
...We need to increase spending on pollution control, low-rent public housing and education...
...All this would temporarily increase the Federal deficit, but then would quickly and suhstantially reduce it by making employed tax payers out of unemployed tax eaters...
...mainstream at a time when the mainstream needs, and is asking for, forceful, assured leadership...
...The Republicans are suffering their President Humphrey right now...
...This is a situation that cannot long endure...
...Full employment could be achieved by a massive Federal program of useful public works...
...These bills would grant new rights to grand jury witnesses, supply more information to grand jury members, promote grand jury secrecy, make changes in the immunity laws, and provide for independent grand jury inquiries and possibly special prosecutors...
Vol. 59 • January 1976 • No. 2
