IMPEACHMENT AND THE DILATORY DEMOCRATS

...Another technique is that applied by the steel union...

...But the Government is asking Bryan to reconsider this ruling, arguing that compliance would require the disclosure of "highly sensitive" documents...

...In fact, the Committee found that the 160,000 barrels a day would go directly into the domestic supply where it would be insignificant except as a benefit of millions of dollars to the oil companies, especially California Standard...

...the prospect that Republican candidates may take a beating at the polls next fall and in 1976 is not one to set us trembling...

...President Nixon is well known for his willingness to practice "brinkmanship" and to use violence to achieve his objectives in the international arena...

...Everyone who has been involved in intelligence work knows that "national security" has been used often as the justification for setting aside the due process of law...

...Back in 1886, laborers had to forge a new type of movement, the simple unionism of the AFL, because the "uplift" unionism of the Knights of Labor, hostile to strikes, was incapable of winning shorter hours and better wages...

...Because of too little time and lack of interest among the legislators, they adjourned with no action taken...

...The Government has placed the burden on the backs of the working class...

...Last year the Administration quietly passed the word that raises had better stay in the five to seven per cent bracket—or else...

...The bill would have made a few improvements, however, including pre-election reporting of contributions, and limitations on campaign spending...

...The House Armed Services Committee, which has blocked the authorization, has filed a report which disputes the claim that the fuel is needed for national defense...

...The Social Democrats won a bare quarter of the vote, their worst showing since 1906, and the Conservatives and Liberals hit record lows...

...The struck Trans World Airlines, for instance, can subsist for months on the "strike benefits" provided by Pan American, American Airlines, and other airlines...

...However, they could inform their members of an endorsement, conduct voter registration, and pass along individual contributions—all of which may subvert this section of the report...

...There has been a general thread of optimism that a "law and order" Administration could not, in the final analysis, place itself above the law...

...Two days before the Senate went home for a month-long recess, it approved a resolution from the Subcommittee which authorized the opening of Elk Hills for the "national defense" at a rate of 160,000 barrels a day, equal to only nine-tenths of one per cent of the country's daily petroleum consumption...

...Few of those who voted for Glistrup would like to see him carry out his full program...

...But in the long run the workers will be better off if they stand firm on their demand for union recognition...

...The popular reaction is "Why should I pay taxes, when the rich don't pay and the young won't work...

...New Jersey has passed a tough new disclosure law...

...One of the top academic authorities on campaign finance in the nation, Adamany has also been active in Democratic politics and is one of Lucey's confidants...

...The reforms we may see in our union may at the same time take place in the Government and in our social world...

...they had to be taken up with a far more powerful adversary, the national Administration in Washington...

...It turned out to be a disaster for all except those who are content with the status quo...

...In 1935, laborers again had to forge a new type of organization, the CIO and its industrial unionism, because the craft unions were incapable of penetrating the bastions of American business, the mass production industries...

...The Danish election shattered, at least temporarily, the political consensus underlying the Danish welfare state...

...The union exemption was by far the best publicized issue in the very different and highly partisan bills that passed the Democrat-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate...

...It would also act as a bank for all candidates who chose to receive matching funds from the state...

...Are the American people to conclude from this, the shoddiest political episode in the nation's history, that they are powerless in the face of outrages committed against them...

...After a generation of rising prosperity, there is less interest in solidarity, and welfare measures are accepted as part of the natural order...

...The Republicans wanted to wipe out campaign contributions from union political action committees on which Ohio Democrats are heavily dependent, and the Democrats wanted to put the screws to the fat-cat businessmen on whom the Republicans rely so heavily...

...Col., USAF (Ret...

...To general amazement, polls showed Glistrup's party outstripping the "loyal opposition" within months after he announced its formation last winter...

...In public statements the President has repeatedly promoted Elk Hills as a readily available source of crude oil...

...Republican officeholders are aware—more acutely aware than most of us—of the grave damage that has been inflicted on their party and on their political program by their incumbent President, and of the fact that the damage is compounded every day that the President remains in office...

...But over his protests and those of others who warned of past contractual problems with California Standard, a majority of the legislators had the bill sent back to committee to restore the funds...

...What is wrong with Senator Goldwater's shut-up-or-put-up formulation is that it is not "the people who are yelling for impeachment"—among whom we are proud to count ourselves—who are holding up the process...

...Clerical Clout The bitter struggle, now almost three years old, between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Farah Manufacturing Company over union recognition in Farah's nine pantsmaking plants took a sharp turn recently when Farah closed four of them, putting 1,500 workers, most of them Chicano, out of work...

...Governor Gilligan introduced a reform bill that in some respects was adequate, but it contained a provision to exempt labor unions, and other organizations that collect contributions in units of $10 or less, from a proposed ceiling of $3,000 on contributions by a single person or a single political committee...

...On December 3, the Justice Department went back to court seeking an injunction that would prohibit Marchetti's collaborator, John D. Marks, "his agents, servants, employes, assigns, heirs, beneficiaries, executives, administrators, successors, and all other persons in active concert with him" from disclosing in any manner classified information obtained during Marks's employment at the State Department...

...I think the whole labor movement will eventually be affected...

...There might be a breach of the Navy's contract with California Standard, which allows use of Elk Hills only for national defense...

...Campaign Reform Report: Ohio Dayton, Ohio As the stench from Watergate spread across the nation, legislatures in a few states felt pressured into passing bills reforming sleazy campaign financing practices...

...And it would empower Federal agencies to restrict the use of sensitive information to those former employes who can be counted on to toe the official line...

...He campaigned for cutting property and luxury taxes while raising the value-added tax —a kind of general sales tax on all goods including food—to twenty-five per cent...

...Spending limits would be imposed on all campaigns...

...Should we not consider the possibility that he might use the same tactics in domestic politics when his political survival is at stake...

...The Republicans in the Senate pushed through a measure that rendered virtually meaningless any limit on individual contributions: A contributor could give as much as $267,000 to a candidate by funneling the funds through various local party committees...

...The truckers' demands—higher speed limits and lower fuel prices—could not be won at a grievance session with management...

...It may prove difficult, if not impossible, for Marks to sort the information he collected during his State Department days from that he acquired while employed by Case...

...The Florida legislature is looking at proposals to improve that state's already tough campaign laws...

...The Republicans hope to put the monkey on Gilligan's back, and there is some talk of the GOP getting behind a cosmetic bill at this year's legislative session...

...A House-Senate conference committee tried to work out a compromise, but the conference kept running aground on the union exemption...

...The bulk of the protest vote went to two mis-leadingly named new parties on the right: Center Democrats (fourteen seats) and the Progress Party (twenty-eight seats...

...It was in this atmosphere of confusion that Congress considered opening the 46,000-acre Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve, one of the nation's richest oil fields, and, in fact, the only significant, largely idle oil reserve in the United States ready for production...

...There lias been talk about reforming Ohio's laws...

...Taxes rose faster under the 1968-71 non-socialist government than under the Social Democrats, so the non-socialist opposition parties could not capitalize on anti-tax sentiment...

...1} To enforce the state's election and lobbying laws, a new election commission would be created...

...Let's stop talking about it...

...Those citizens around the country who are confident that Watergate will inevitably lead to wholesale changes in the way campaigns are financed at the state level had better rethink their assumptions unless they are willing and able to mount a broadly based pressure campaign...

...In spite of an election law that guarantees parliamentary representation to any party polling more than two per cent of the vote, Danes invariably gave the four traditional parties— the Social Democrats, Radical Liberals, Liberals (the farmers' party), and Conservatives—eighty-five per cent or more of the 179 seats in parliament...

...We have already witnessed an incredible display of distortion, dissimulation, and deceit designed to hide the Administration's crimes—a display that culminated a few weeks ago in the unceremonious collapse of Nixon's "Operation Candor...

...Nixon's Ultimate Option Although a number of prominent Americans believe the fate of President Nixon will be determined either by his resignation or through the impeachment process, I find such optimism distressing...

...The responsibility for the unconscionable delay rests with the House of Representatives—specifically, with the Democratic leadership of the House (as Gold-water suggested) and with its Judiciary Committee, which has the first obligation to report an impeachment resolution to the floor...

...It exists, as columnist William Raspberry recently noted in The Washington Post, in this essential fact: "Richard M. Nixon, whose Administration has been the most corrupt in the nation's history and whose continued Administration as President could do irreversible damage to the nation's most sacred institution, must be removed from office...

...Marks left State to work for "the opposition"—Senator Clifford P. Case, New Jersey Republican...

...If an overwhelming majority of the people demonstrated their determination to preserve our democratic institutions, it is possible that the military might refuse to use force against them...

...foreign policy...

...The closing came as the result of a nationwide boycott against Farah's products that dropped sales by $8 million in one year...

...In coming weeks an end-run around the House Armed Services Committee will be attempted for the final authorization to open Elk Hills...

...Why, then, do the Democratic leaders of the House and the Democratic majority on the Judiciary Committee procrastinate...

...Abel has hailed this as a great victory, but in fact— as militants in his organization insist—it is a significant retreat...

...I suggest it is time to examine the probable actions of the military, the President's ultimate power base, in the event he decides that democracy is a luxury the country can no longer afford...

...After returning to Washington, soured on American involvement in Indochina, he worked in State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research...

...The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history...

...But as things worked out, neither Gilligan nor the citizens of Ohio benefited from the special session...

...But in most states the road is even longer and rockier...

...If the Congress does appear willing to pursue the process of impeachment, there is a possibility that the President might abort that process and impose censorship of the press under the pretext that some sort of national emergency has compelled him to suspend the Constitution...

...If my speculation on a military-supported coup were to become a reality, there would be an initial period of unrest in the military because of conflicts between the desire to preserve democracy and the desire to obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief...

...Most commentators have assumed the President would ultimately bow to a "definitive decision" of the Supreme Court or to the impeachment process...

...Marks began his government career in 1966 as a Foreign Service officer assigned to Vietnam...

...Further study was obviously needed, but two days of subsequent hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on National Stockpile and Naval Petroleum Reserves barely touched on the national defense issue and the years of trouble between the Navy and California Standard—including litigation—over Elk Hills...

...the Christian People's Party from a reaction against permissiveness...

...The Social Democratic government, which with support from the left-wing Socialist People's Party had had a one-vote majority, and the non-socialist opposition suffered equally...

...They would also be inhibited by the possibility of going to prison for failure to obey...

...And giants like AT&T or General Motors have the resources to wage war for years, if they want to...

...America's unions, including the bigger ones, are not the Goliaths they appear to be in straight contests with management...

...As far back as December 1972, he talked of introducing reform legislation...

...There are state statutes, but the holes in them would put a Swiss cheese to shame...

...That was in the good old days...

...For years unceasing efforts have been made by the oil industry to tap the naval reserves, including this field near Bakersfield, California, to reap potentially huge profits...

...Standard Oil of California, which owns the field with the Navy, could reap, it said, windfall profits should the reserve be opened precipitously without a Congressional finding of national defense...

...Among the principal recommendations are these: The state would provide matching grants to candidates to help finance their campaigns, grants equal to the private contributions they received...

...The economic strike against individual employers or groups of employers is not enough...

...Surely there is no longer any doubt that grounds for such an indictment exist...

...Steel hauler Paul Dietsch, interviewed by Studs Terkel in New Times...

...Some members of Congress have privately engaged in intense speculation along these lines since last fall, when the President casually told a group of Southern Democratic Representatives at a White House dinner, "I can go into my office and make a telephone call and within twenty-five minutes seventy million people would be dead...

...We believe that a prima facie case exists that the President is guilty of criminal acts and criminal dereliction of duty, and we enumerated the specifics in our own "Bill of Impeachment" in the December issue of The Progressive...

...But until now, Congress has resisted...

...They have every reason to be worried, for if they continue to procrastinate in the face of the President's outrageous conduct, they will stand convicted—and rightly so—as his willing accomplices...

...It seems necessary to permit ample campaigning if the issues or personalities require it," Adamany wrote in the report...

...When Vice President Ford, then a Republican Representative from Michigan, was arguing for the impeachment of Justice William O. Douglas three years ago, he stated the case in these terms: "[Impeachment] relates solely to the accused's right to hold civil office...

...Voters seemed to approve...

...Air Force for twenty years, and has therefore had some experience with the "military mind," I believe it extremely important for the American people to recognize that there is at least some possibility that the President's role as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces may allow him to add the United States to the growing list of formerly democratic countries now ruled by governments based on raw military power...

...The successful cooperative movement was one concrete expression of this sentiment...

...Welfare abuses absorb only a fraction of a per cent of the social budget, and most of the rich pay their share...

...One year later, Wulf's prediction is coming true...

...His latest book, "The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution," will be published this spring by United Church Press...

...Or are they to experience the renewal that will come from a reasser-tion of popular sovereignty...

...Clements says he has removed himself from the "decisional chain" on energy policy at the Pentagon and is providing only "technical advice," but he is behind the drive that could lead to opening the Alaska reserves...

...The seven-member body would be given subpoena power and the power to bring legal action against violators...

...Haslanger covers state and local politics for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin...

...And there is a widespread belief that long-haired youths misuse the welfare system...

...And the cause for impeachment, as Ford stated it, exists irrespective of any particular charge against the President...

...With few exceptions—notably that of The Washington Post—the media have paid little attention to the case or the freedom-of-the-press issues raised by it...

...One of the galling provisions for these militants is a pledge by Abel to work for higher productivity, or at least not to hamper management's efforts to achieve it...

...The special interests, and that includes office-holders as well as those who pay their campaign bills, are too well entrenched to yield to anything less...

...He founded his own party, the Center Democrats, and tipped the parliamentary balance against the government, bringing on the election...

...The second issue—the manner in which the State Department will be required to prove that the material in dispute is actually classified—was settled in part on December 21, when Judge Bryan ruled that the CIA and State must produce evidence demonstrating that the 225 passages the Government proposes to delete from the Marchetti-Marks book are, indeed, based on classified information...

...Continuing Congressional delay will prove what a growing number of Americans—and particularly young Americans—already suspect: that there is no justice in the system, and no way of attaining it...

...Despite its awesome size and considerable treasury, the steelworkers' organization has minimal bargaining power and has depended on government to bail it out for many years...

...During his three years as Case's executive assistant, he maintained an interest in intelligence affairs...

...ACLU attorney Melvin Wulf, who was representing Marchetti, warned that the ruling had created a dangerous precedent under which other Federal agencies would attempt to bar former employes from publishing material critical of government policies and actions...

...Senator Goldwater's sentiments are shared, increasingly, by Republican leaders in and out of Congress...

...IMPEACHMENT AND THE DILATORY DEMOCRATS Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, the arch-conservative Republican Presidential candidate in 1964, is in a hurry about impeaching President Nixon: "I think it's incumbent on the Democratic leadership of the House to get off its tail ends and move on this," Goldwater recently told The Christian Science Monitor...

...Most professional soldiers believe that American society is overly permissive and naively unaware of a Communist threat...

...Early indications are that the fight for the reform program will be a tough one...

...The Republicans countered with a proposal to require union members to earmark their gifts for specific political candidates, a measure totally unacceptable to the state's labor chieftains and to the Democrats...

...Something less than a criminal act or criminal dereliction of duty may nevertheless be sufficient grounds for impeachment...

...The latest word, at this writing, from the Chairman of Judiciary, Representative Peter W. Rodino, Jr., New Jersey Democrat, is that the House may have an opportunity to vote on impeachment by the end of April—"or thereabouts...

...They would have us believe—or so, at least, their public utterances indicate—that they are engaged in a judicial proceeding requiring the most unhurried deliberation...

...Finally, there is the question of elemental justice and basic democracy...

...It is unlikely that the Liberal government will survive for a full four-year term...

...I find nothing surprising in the assumption of the Watergate burglars and the White House "plumbers" that their actions were justified by a higher authority...

...Citizens' groups in California are seeking an initiative to establish a system of public funding for campaigns...

...If successful, it could, in turn, trigger a massive raid on the huge Alaska field, unless Congress decides to show more concern for the public's natural resources...

...That exemption was in the bill that finally passed the Democrat-controlled House...

...To live better, you worked together...

...Each bloc lost thirty seats...

...These divisions carried over into the special session itself...

...Among these grounds there may be some few that can still be debated by those who wish to give the President every conceivable benefit of doubt...

...For other races, the limits are $300 for statewide offices, and $100 for legislative contests...

...Another, even more alarming possibility is that the President might attempt to head off impeachment by precipitating a full-blown international crisis...

...Thus, in a most unusual action, the House appropriated money without any authorization to spend it...

...As operator of Elk Hills for the Navy, producing several thousand barrels a day, California Standard has enjoyed what is widely regarded as an extremely favorable contract...

...ALVIN P, SANOFF (Mr...

...President Nixon said last fall he wanted Elk Hills opened, and Congress is yielding...

...And in Wisconsin, Governor Patrick J. Lucey's Study Committee on Campaign Finance issued a preliminary report in late 1973 which may offer the most comprehensive program of campaign reform being considered in any state...

...In both countries, gains by parties to the left of the Social Democrats provided a parliamentary basis for a Social Democratic minority cabinet...

...The reason is that steel production is about 120 million tons a year, but capacity can be stretched to 185 million or 200 million tons...

...The boycott was backed by the AFL-CIO, and gained the endorsement of five of the nation's Catholic bishops...

...Furthermore, in urging a swift decision on impeachment Republican spokesmen are accurately reflecting a broad and growing popular consensus...

...Though the three traditional non-socialist parties disavowed Glistrup, they have all found it advisable to adopt some of his proposals...

...As the crisis continues, I am not aware of a single political analyst, in or out of public office, who has publicly recognized that the military could be the final arbiter...

...At the same time, Danes have discovered that the tax system is unfair...

...How deep popular dissatisfaction runs is not clear...

...If the injunction is granted, Marks will be required to obtain advance approval of the State Department for any "manuscript, article, essay, or other writing, factual, fictional, or otherwise, which relates or purports to relate to Department of State classified information...

...If the recommendations in the report were adopted in full, they would revolutionize the funding and the conduct of campaigns on the state level...

...Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, who presided over the Commerce Committee hearings, pleaded for a delay in the Senate vote, but to no avail...

...The disparity in economic power has been hidden from view because Washington has been using its influence, behind the scenes, to bring about a modus vivendi...

...Two related issues are also being adjudicated: whether Marks's material was obtained during his term at State, and how the Department will be required to prove that his information is, in fact, classified...

...U Limits would also be imposed on how much an individual could contribute within a year...

...In early September, Gilligan decided to try again, and called a special session of the legislature in mid-October for the specific purpose of enacting campaign financing reforms...

...Beset—obsessed—with the problem of his own political survival, the President is in no position to cope with the critical problems confronting the American people, many of which were created or aggravated by the policies and actions of his own Administration...

...even so, these reports tell less than the full story...

...Labor's Emerging Reality The recent blockade of interstate highways by owner-truckers and "undisciplined" union teamsters punctuated the fact that the American trade union movement is out of step with history: it was built to fight economic battles against employers, but its decisive confrontations nowadays are political, against the Federal Government...

...Taxes to all levels of government in 1971 amounted to forty-four per cent of the Danish GNP, as compared to thirty-six per cent in England and twenty-eight per cent in the United States...

...Bryan's decision was upheld by a Federal appeals court, and the Supreme Court declined to review it...

...He hopes to blame the Republicans for sabotaging campaign reform...

...The issue is the right of former Federal employes to publish information they obtained during their government service...

...The report is largely the work of University of Wisconsin political science professor David Adamany...

...A bi-partisan legislative committee, set up to develop a reform bill to put before the session, ended up in partisan brawling...

...SIDNEY LENS (Sidney Lens is a Chicago-based author and labor leader...

...Legislation' on the fuel emergency was changed on the Senate floor to drop any authorization for the President to open Elk Hills...

...The Republican leadership of the State Assembly attacked the concept of public financing within days after the report came out...

...Censorship and the CIA In a Federal District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, government lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union are locked in a far-reaching dispute over pre-publication censorship...

...Now, we're having a reevaluation of the way we treat each other...

...In addition, it would receive most of the $64.5 million appropriated by the Senate to open the field to produce the 160,000 barrels a day...

...Gilligan's call was a grandstand play, but it had some virtue, or at least so it seemed: It put the legislature under pressure to enact a decent bill at a time when public disgust with sleazy campaign financing practices had risen to record heights...

...On the House side, in the rush to be on the "right" side of the energy issue, the lawmakers, two days before the month's recess, rebuffed the powerful chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Representative George H. Mahon of Texas...

...And they will receive, and richly deserve, the scorn of the American people...

...The new minority Liberal cabinet, which has the weakest parliamentary base (twenty-two seats) in recent history, will seek to cut back social expenditures, but it is limited by its need for Social Democratic votes in parliament and for sufferance from the labor unions outside...

...Fair enough...

...Farah's workers, whose income runs close to the legal minimum, clearly need and have the right to a union...

...For the gubernatorial race, for instance, candidates could spend $200,000 in the primary race, and $350,000 in the general election...

...Nothing less than a national strike would suffice...

...He is currently under investigation for tax evasion, fraud, and usury...

...In the final hours the House balked on granting emergency powers to President Nixon, but otherwise the energy legislation was pushed through, although the floor debate demonstrated that few knew the contents of most of the bills—or their consequences...

...But this is precisely what impeachment is not...

...Federal Administrations, Republican and Democratic, have applied pressure on the steel barons to make moderate concessions, which are then passed on to the public...

...Perhaps the ultimate threat to our political system is the political apathy of the people in conjunction with the head-in-the-sand attitude of supposedly sophisticated politicians and intellectuals...

...But if the time was ever right for mobilizing such support, the wake of Watergate is that time...

...Nordlinger is a Washington correspondent for The Baltimore Sun who specializes in coverage of energy problems...

...And in an era of crisis, brought about by the collapse of the dollar and tougher economic competition from Japan and Germany, its weaknesses on the political scene have been glaring...

...Iowa took a step toward public financing by providing a $1 checkoff credited against state income taxes...

...STEPHEN E. NORDLINGER (Mr...

...The court ordered Marchetti to submit his final manuscript—the book was then only in oudine form—to the CIA prior to publication so that the agency could determine whether it contained any "classified" material...

...The company might thereby be released to produce the oil and at the same time be freed from a $24 million obligation to the Navy...

...It is, rather, merely an indictment—a finding of probable cause that "high crimes and misdemeanors" have been committed and that a trial should be conducted by the Senate to determine whether the President should be removed from office...

...Here it is business as usual, with powerful interests joining hands with the politicians they bankroll to maintain the status quo...

...Much of it derives from misunderstanding...

...Judging from the unhurried pace at which the people's legislators have been dealing with this, the most urgent of their constitutional obligations, "thereabouts" could turn out to be June, or September, or never...

...That is what the auto, teamster, steel, construction, and other unionists settled for, and the rest had little choice but to follow...

...Even Vice President Ford, while delivering his obligatory defense of the President, has hinted discreetly that he would be relieved to see the question of impeachment promptly resolved...

...The 350,000 basic steelworkers are guaranteed a three per cent annual raise, plus cost of living increases, as well as the privilege to bargain for more...

...Colonel Dougherty is a member of the history faculty of State University College at Brockport, New York...

...But the Republicans were not about to let Democrat Gilligan rescue anything from the ashes of the special session, so the legislature adjourned without enacting a bill...

...To keep them realistic the limits would be tied to the state's population and the Consumer Price Index...

...And that involves A REEVALUATION During the last thirty years we were taught in this industry that the only way to get ahead was to cheat and steal and cut corners, you know what I mean...

...JOHN LOGUE (John Logue, a graduate student at Princeton who is working on his dissertation on the development of post-welfare socialism in Scandinavia, was in Copenhagen for the election discussed in the comment above...

...Elsewhere in these pages, a retired military officer warns ("Nixon's Ultimate Option," page 7) that the President might be tempted to mount a military coup—and might succeed in bringing it off...

...The prospect therefore is for speed-up and layoffs that steel unionists will be unable to challenge because they have given up their primary weapon, the strike, until 1977...

...There is, first, the disquieting thought that the longer Nixon remains in office, the more determined he may be to refuse to relinquish power under any circumstances...

...The proposal would widen the gap between rich and poor...

...The professional soldier is indoctrinated to believe that his first duty is to follow the orders of his legally constituted superiors—and the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces...

...Similarly, you paid taxes to give the sick, elderly, disabled, and unemployed a reasonable standard of living, knowing that others' willingness to pay taxes guaranteed you the same economic security...

...The Communists • and the Georgists profited from their opposition to Danish membership in the Common Market...

...Campaign Reform Report: Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin As the American public is bombarded by revelation after revelation detailing the misuse of money in politics, and as the Congress debates with vigor ways to clean up campaigns and then backs away from truly tough remedies, there is a movement afoot in a dozen states to bring meaningful reform to state and local politics...

...There is some fear that Farah is so bitterly antiunion that it will close the remaining five plants rather than see them unionized...

...The bishops' support of their cause is a simple act of social justice...

...What's the hurry...

...But the sort of injunction the Government is seeking would severely curtail Marks's freedom to write, as a journalist, about the topics he knows best...

...These laws encourage the establishment of dummy campaign committees, fail to limit contributions and expenditures, and do not require reports of contributions until forty-five days after an election...

...But since the Teamster leadership, under Frank Fitzsimmons, is an adjunct to the Nixon regime, and the Democrats were not willing to back the rebels, their only means of applying pressure was a furious—and largely futile—wildcat action...

...Despite the clear public desire for "clean" politics and "honest" politicians, translating that into support for specific—and complex—legislation will not be easy...

...Many military people would recognize the consequences of following orders—but it would be difficult for individual soldiers to summon the moral courage necessary to risk their careers and the financial rewards of retirement...

...For the balance of his term in office, be it a month or a year or the full thirty-five months remaining if he is not removed, we can look forward to further mismanagement of the economy, further subservience to the special interests that were instrumental in engineering his election, further disintegration of the processes of government...

...The call for a special session put Gilligan squarely on the right side of a "good government" issue, and if nothing substantive emerged from the special session, he could always blame the obstructionists in the Republican-controlled Senate...

...Much of the talk has come from Governor John J. Gilligan, who has one eye on his re-election prospects this year and the other on his Democratic Presidential prospects in 1976...

...All this, however, is almost irrelevant because the big contest—especially since the 1971 wage controls were instituted—is with the Government...

...If Congress shrinks from a confrontation with the President on the issue of his immunity from the law of the land, Nixon will have succeeded in establishing a de facto dictatorship in which the law is whatever he claims it to be...

...By law, the reserves may be exploited only for the national defense, and while this term is vague, it has been interpreted to mean armed conflict...

...He would have to raise another three per cent before he could qualify for the matching grant scheme...

...Rebellious voters sent five more parties to parliament, including the Communists, the Christian People's Party, and the League for Justice, a Danish anomaly tracing its ideological lineage to Henry George...

...The American Civil Liberties Union, the labor movement, the grass-roots impeachment organizations that are springing up across the country, are doing everything within their power to promote pressure for impeachment now...

...Though the rich could avoid taxes earlier, this first became a national scandal when Glistrup began his successful career of public tax evasion on television in 1971...

...The Social Democrats fared badly in all three, but in Norway this was primarily the result of support for Common Market membership, and in Sweden, of the Social Democrats' deflationary economic policy...

...Glistrup promised to abolish the national income tax and slash public expenditures, terminating welfare programs and firing state employes, thereby dismantling the welfare state— though he was careful to avoid saying that directly...

...It fails to recognize that Nixon's tenure in office may ultimately be determined by the reaction of the military...

...The behavior of Ohio's elected leaders raises questions about whether those with a fundamental interest in the present corrupt and corrupting system of campaign financing will yield to reforming that system unless they are forced to by massive lobbying from public and issue-oriented organizations such as Common Cause and massive pressure from the media...

...Like many other states, Ohio has no effective legislation to regulate campaign financing practices and the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures...

...Thus all income and expenses would be recorded in a central place...

...The comprehensive Danish welfare state was erected on a broad political consensus...

...By coincidence, just before the Senate voted, testimony was presented to the Senate Commerce Committee that the Navy had been forced to spend $1.8 million in the last few months on four wells to prevent drainage of its oil supplies from Elk Hills by California Standard, which was drilling on its land in a buffer zone next to the reserve, in possible violation of Federal law...

...I think the people who are yelling for impeachment should shut up or put up, one of the two...

...In return, the union leadership has kept the industrial boat on an even keel and has given full support to U.S...

...CIA Director William E. Colby intervened directly in the case a few weeks ago with an affidavit in which he asserted that the disputed passages in the book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, would "cause serious harm to the national defense interests of the United States and will seriously disrupt the conduct of this country's foreign relations...

...PHIL HASLANGER (Mr...

...Discontent in Denmark Danish politics used to frustrate the impatient...

...In April 1970, following the U.S...

...A labor movement which has had no stronger reeds to lean on than deals with top officials and some support from liberal Democrats, has shown itself to be virtually impotent...

...A New Teapot Dome In a state of near-panic induced by the "energy crisis," Congress wound up the 1973 session rushing through bill after bill to cope with the fuel emergency so that members could go home for the January recess firmly on record against the shortage...

...The major industries now have secret strike funds to preserve the profits of corporate brethren who have to take a strike...

...Reasons for protest varied...

...In the past, the relatively high Danish standard of living was based on a strong sense of social solidarity...

...And a mere contract dispute strikes few sparks in this palmy era of Watergate journalism...

...Some think that the country would be better served if those who believe the Cold War is over were removed from the decision-making process —particularly since the Cold War has been the justification for the extraordinary growth of military power and influence since the end of World War II...

...As set out in the preliminary report, a candidate would have to raise three per cent of the total he was allowed to spend before receiving any state money...

...As of now, it seems unrealistic to expect this sort of unity to emerge...

...invasion of Cambodia...

...They are worried, we are told, about a potential "backlash" against all incumbents when the voters go to the polls in November of 1974 and in 1976...

...But there were many others...

...from pursuing publication of a book about the CIA...

...Why the sudden rebellion...

...There is a superficial resemblance between the Danish election results and those of the September 1973 elections in Norway and Sweden...

...Because the House had not authorized the opening of Elk Hills for national defense, Mahon deleted the $64.5 million for the project from a catchall supplemental appropriation bill passed by the Senate...

...The limit on the governor's race is rather low by past Wisconsin experience, but for other contests the limits are quite generous...

...The unions need a political stick to deal with that agency which makes the most vital economic decisions, the Federal Government...

...The Democrat-controlled Assembly has already rejected, by a wide margin, one effort to impose contribution and spending limits that were more generous than Adamany's...

...not to the many other rights which are his as a citizen and which protect him in a court of law . . . What, then, is an impeachable offense...

...Then, last July, as the Watergate revelations began piling up, Gilligan called on the legislature, in the last days of its session, to pass two specific reforms: a limit on campaign expenditures, and full disclosure of campaign contributions before the election...

...Governor Lucey himself has made campaign reform a priority issue and has endorsed the matching grant concept, but he is withholding public comment on the proposals until the final report is in...

...Governor Gilligan thinks he can salvage a political issue from the session...

...Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is ready to publish the book— with blank spaces, if necessary, where the 225 passages would have appeared...

...I think maybe the whole nation is beginning to see that the sharp operator isn't the one to look up to...

...In 1973 prices outstripped wage increases so consistently that real wages fell by about three per cent...

...This would create hardship among the workers, not all of whom support the union...

...Many Americans—perhaps a majority—assume that the military would refuse to follow their Commander-in-Chief if he should announce that national security is forcing .him to assume dictatorial powers...

...Leaders of special interest groups are taking aim at the prohibition on their activities...

...Glistrup's and Jacobsen's electoral success is in part due to the fact that Danes have the dubious distinction of being the most heavily taxed people in the world...

...Gilligan has been a good governor, particularly by Ohio standards, but when it comes to campaign financing reform, his rhetoric has surpassed his results...

...One technique is that employed by Fitzsimmons—cozying to Richard Nixon in return for personal favors...

...My personal experience in the military leads me to the conclusion that such an assumption may be extremely naive —and I know my view is shared by other officers...

...The results might have been worse, had not the oil crisis made some voters opt for security...

...Moreover, the great conglomerates such as Gulf & Western can easily survive a walkout in one part of their empire while the rest continues in operation...

...However, concern is being expressed by some Congressmen that a major beneficiary of Alaska development would be William P. Clements, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense and owner of $102 million in stock in Sedco, Inc., a major drilling company...

...Thus, workers would have to be on strike for four or five months before management would even begin to hurt...

...To state the matter as bluntly as possible, the United States may soon become a military dictatorship...

...Victor L. Marchetti, a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency, was enjoined last year by Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr...

...The reason, Marks believes, is that the Government has successfully portrayed the case as a contract dispute—the contract in question being the pledge of secrecy that Marks and Marchetti signed whdh they joined their respective agencies...

...Recently, union president I. W. Abel negotiated a pact, called the "Experimental National Agreement," which substitutes arbitration for the right to strike...

...It has not only failed to win important social concessions, such as national health insurance, but has proved inadequate even on the bread-and-butter front...

...Paradoxically, the new unwillingness to pay for social services seems to be a product of prosperity...

...But there are urgent and overriding reasons for removing Richard M. Nixon from the Presidency at the earliest possible moment by the due process provided in the Constitution...

...But Ohio is not one of these states...

...Morevoer, how will the Government prove which information came from where...

...Sanoff is editorial page editor of The Dayton Journal Herald...

...These pressures have helped bring about some reform at the Federal level, although there is still a long way to go...

...Our concern, of course, is not the same as that of Senator Goldwater and his Republican colleagues...

...but there are others that can serve, without further deliberation or delay, as a firm basis for a trial in the Senate...

...If Special interest groups—like business associations and labor unions—would be prohibited from making any contributions to candidates or political parties or from campaigning for a candidate during the election period...

...As one who served in the U.S...

...The Progress Party, now Denmark's second largest party, was the creation of Mogens Glistrup, a tax lawyer noted for his ability to evade his own and his clients' income taxes...

...When President Nixon invoked executive privilege in order to withhold evidence concerning the validity of charges against him and other high officials, he claimed he was doing so to save the nation from a constitutional crisis...

...JOHN E. DOUGHERTY Lt...

...Prompt and decisive Congressional action on impeachment can foster such a renewal, demonstrating that the laws still apply to the powerful as well as to the powerless, that the Congress is still capable of responding to moral imperatives and not just to the demands of entrenched interests...

...In October 1973, Erhard Jacobsen, a right-wing Social Democratic MP, sought to cash in on the reservoir of discontent that Glistrup had-discovered...

...Farah management itself blamed the closing of the plants squarely on the bishops, who were probably as surprised as anyone to learn they had so much economic clout...

...For the governor's race, the limit the report suggests is $500...

...But if no agreement is reached the matter goes to arbitration, not the picket line...

...I can visualize only one set of circumstances that might persuade the military to refuse to participate in a coup...

...Though conservatives made some gains, neither Norwegian nor Swedish results called the welfare state itself into question...

...The failure, thus far, to act on that essential fact must be attributed, as Raspberry also observed, to "lack of guts and lack of leadership" among the Congressional Democrats...

...The central problem facing labor under a state-managed economy is political, but the labor movement has not advanced much beyond old Samuel Gom-pers in dealing with politics...

...In the legislative rush, all of thirty minutes had been set aside for debating the resolution...

...Under the Administration plan, part of the appropriated funds and the additional amounts from oil sales would go into a fund for exploring new supplies at Elk Hills and at the even richer undeveloped Naval Petroleum Reserve on the North Slope in Alaska, which contains at least 33 billion barrels...

...But he produced nothing because the Democrats never could agree on a^suitable bill...

...At the same time, however, White House officials, in a "background statement" to the Senate Interior Committee, have privately disclosed some difficulties...

...Taxes have always been relatively high in Denmark...

...To receive the grant, a candidate would have to cross a series of "thresholds" to demonstrate political viability...

...In reality, he has launched the nation on a course which may well destroy the concept of a government of powers divided among the Executive, the Congress, and the Courts—a concept that has guaranteed democracy in the United States since the Eighteenth Century...

...On a less cataclysmic scale, there is the reality—not the possibility, but the reality—that Nixon is a crippled President incapable of discharging the duties of his office, and that his capability will not be restored...

...Old rules can be stretched to meet emergency conditions and, despite occasional outcries on Capitol Hill of "another Teapot Dome," the previous interpretation of national defense is proving elastic...

...To be successful, such a strike would require the active support and participation of middle-level managers in the Government and private business...

...Despite prosperity and full employment, the December election, called after a Social Democratic split, was a disaster for all parliamentary parties...

...This would apply to both primary and general elections...

...a total reorientation towards independent politics which can mobilize labor's muscle not only at factory gates but in the halls of Congress and the White House...

...The sudden, short election campaign did not give time to correct misconceptions —it only registered the discontent...

...The American people, organized and unorganized, have bombarded Congress with an unprecedented volume of mail suggesting, urging, demanding that the President be impeached...

...Now labor must bring its structure into line with a new reality, that of an economy that is both over-centralized and state-managed...

...In the waning moments of the special session, the Democrats tried to win Republican approval for a cosmetic bill that would have ducked the union issue by avoiding a ceiling on contributions...

...In a negotiation year, therefore, the industry can accelerate activity and produce a year's supply of steel in seven or eight months...

...The dominant Social Democrats' reforms were enacted only after compromise with at least one—and frequently all—of the three major non-socialist parties, and the non-socialist parties changed little when they took office...

...and the Center Democrats and Progress Party from a rebellion against taxes...

...Together these two polled nearly a quarter of the vote...

...No one person could give more than $5,000 in a year to all candidates and political organizations...