Comment

...Palestinians will continue and possibly escalate their terrorist activities unless their national ambitions find a vehicle for genuine self-expression...

...Specifically, there is the danger that the House of Representatives will cast its Bill of Impeachment in the narrowest terms, citing the President's contemptuous refusal to respond to legislative and judicial subpoenas and adding, perhaps, his participation in the coverup of the Watergate case and the attempt to bribe and suborn witnesses...

...There is even less justification for the President's mission to Moscow: While he is making the most of the benefits of "detente" (including the rather profitable arrangements cited by Judith Miller on page 36), Nixon's Pentagon is tooling up for a new round of escalation in the nuclear arms race...

...But two factors were beyond the candidates' control...

...He made it clear as soon as he was appointed that he is a "strong believer in a sound fiscal policy...

...Molehill-movers can find HATE, Inc., at 154 E. Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611...

...These are, in our judgment, the urgent issues to be examined and dealt with as the nation goes through the searing experience of impeaching its President—and they are the very issues Nixon's strategy seems designed to obscure and obliterate...

...He and Flaherty spent only about $40,000 each, but Flaherty had the organization...

...MARILYN ZEITLIN (Marilyn Zeitlin lived in Chile for a year and a half with her husband, Professor Maurice Zeitlin...

...Left-Winger...

...Except for Allegheny County, the voter turnout was low...

...A settlement between Israelis and Syrians and a settlement between Israelis and Egyptians cannot alone bring peace to the Middle East...

...You take whatever opening the, ah, the speaker [sic] selects for you...

...An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 refugees of Chilean nationality are in Argentina, and another 4,000 in Peru...

...Over a two-week period, the Trib piled up a thirteen-inch stack of releases weighing twenty-six pounds...

...Apparently," he concludes, "the needs of black constituents are low on the priority list of many Mississippi officials...

...State and local governments have emerged from an era of unprecedented expansion...

...Last year nearly everybody, including Denenberg, miscalculated Flaherty's intentions...

...Surely Palestine, after so many years of civil strife, war, and occupation, is long overdue for one...

...Yet, if the United States professes a desire to give bona fide "sympathetic consideration" to foreign refugees, why the bureaucratic red tape...

...The Senate and the public would benefit from a Denenberg in this Year II of Watergate...

...Critics of the State Department policy on refugees from Chile point out that "parole" authority was extended to 50,000 anti-Castro Cubans who have been living in Spain, and who have families in the United States, and ask whether the United States welcomes those who flee from leftist governments but rejects refugees from fascist regimes...

...According to the study, the decision to maintain an augmented U.S...

...First, because Shapp desperately wished to avoid a contest with Flaherty, the Democratic leadership covertly promised Flaherty support if he would try for the Senate...

...Furthermore, the processing of U.S...

...He added: "The corporation is a legal person, one which, as a creature of law, has never been given full moral and political and social responsibility...

...presence in the area—such as increased Russian deployments as a result of the October Middle East war—are merely rationalizations for the Navy's long-standing expansionist aims in the Indian Ocean...

...The way to overcome inflation, he says, is to make "sound" fiscal decisions, and it is "sound" to hold down unemployment and keep people off the welfare rolls...

...Senate...

...Their message is one of urgent timeliness for we know now, more clearly than ever before, the extent to which remote, unaccountable, faceless, and ruthless corporate power has come to dominate our Government and, therefore, our lives...

...Middle East Reconciliation: A Dialogue A successful Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation meeting seemed almost as improbable an event as the parting of the Red Sea...

...It didn't...

...Human Events, the right-wing Washington weekly, is deeply concerned about Vice President Gerald Ford's "dangerous—and growing—inclination...

...Lewis had worked carefully for a year to build up a statewide organization...

...Planning for the conference began last November and continued despite the official opposition of both the Israeli government and the Palestinian National Council—the semiofficial Palestinian government in exile—to the establishment of a Palestinian state on parts of Israeli-occupied territory...

...The choices made now are likely to shape state and local spending and taxation patterns for the coming decade...

...High Commission's plea for admittance of foreign refugees, is that the United States will give "sympathetic consideration" to all requests for asylum by non-Chilean refugees on a "case by case basis...

...Although similar meetings on a smaller scale had been attempted before, the June conference was the largest and most successful effort to date...

...The officially stated position of the U.S...

...Although Congress deleted $29 million for the construction of such a base on Diego Garcia from this year's supplemental military authorization bill, the request is now being considered as part of next year's military construction budget...

...Revenue sharing has turned out to be too much, too late...

...Mexico has accepted several thousand Chilean and foreign refugees, and Canada has recently accepted several hundred more...

...Flaherty, like Denenberg, sought party support from such leaders as state Democratic Chairman Harvey Thieman, Philadelphia boss Peter J. Camiel, and Mayor Frank Rizzo, as well as Governor Shapp...

...Other county organizations across the state followed suit, reinforcing the belief in a Shapp-Flaherty deal...

...The challenges of the 1970s are no less important than those of the past two decades...

...Thus, unless there is compromise on both sides, it is argued, the future holds nothing but hostility, insecurity, and bloodshed for the Holy Land...

...This information, according to State Department spokesmen, is classified, and in no way shared with either the Chilean government or the refugee's home government...

...visas...

...Public welfare has been nearly starved in most states, with benefits well below the poverty line...

...There was also substantial harmony on another point of traditionally intense contention: the status of Jerusalem...

...Many believed that Flaherty's paucity of knowledge about foreign, national, and even statewide problems would surface as a disability compared to the intellectual breadth of Denenberg, a former University of Pennsylvania professor...

...The participants did agree that the meeting should not be a one-shot affair, that informal and formal contacts among conferees must continue...

...In any event, conferees noted, the investment would be far lower than the $8 billion spent by Israel, and $15 billion expended by the Arabs during the recent October Middle East war...

...Even the feeble procrastinators in Congress seem to have come, at last, to the conclusion that the President must be impeached, and are moving slowly but inexorably toward that consummation...

...The conference reflected their friendship and mutual respect...

...Moreover, he backs the restrictive money policy of the Federal Reserve because he thinks it is "sound...

...The best that can be said of the whole Pennsylvania primary affair is that Denenberg proved himself a campaigner and may be around when Senator Hugh Scott is up for reelection in 1976...

...Chile was no longer one of the few political democracies in the world, nor a haven for the thousands of foreign refugees who had come there to escape dictatorships in their own countries...

...COMMENT Impeachment: Nixon and Corporate Power President Nixon is touring the capitals of the Middle East as this issue of The Progressive goes to press, and will be supping at the Kremlin when it reaches—the U.S...

...The Middle East has recently been the beneficiary of several diplomatic "miracles...

...All of which reminded columnist Clayton Fritchey of Calvin Coolidge's famous profundity: "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results...

...The last two decades have challenged the resources of the states...

...Here are a few passages from the Cardinal's statement: "We are concerned, in the first place, by the climate of insecurity and fear, whose roots we believe are found in accusations, false rumors, and the lack of participation and information...

...Safe havens" were set up around the country by the World Council of Churches, together with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and other organizations, to give shelter, food, and medical attention, and to arrange for evacuation of all foreigners desiring to leave the country...

...Postal Service willing—most of our subscribers...

...Kenneth Rush, the Nixon Administration's new economic czar, is a man of "sound" principles...

...The state and local DAs, the Committee suggests, will have to do it themselves...

...Even more scandalous: Public opinion polls in Spain show broad support for abortion, legalized divorce, and nationalization of key industries...

...Department of Justice will enforce the antitrust laws against major international oil corporations...

...The Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau recently started keeping score on the press releases it regularly receives from some three dozen Federal agencies and bureaus...

...One cause for head-shaking at Human Events: Ford's hints that if he were to succeed to the presidency, "he would take much of his advice from Melvin Laird, the ex-Nixon aide who kept trying to push the Nixon Administration leftward on both domestic and foreign policy matters...

...complete an application form which requires detailed personal and political information...

...The only restrictions, according to Temple Cole, director of the State Department's Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs, are those in Immigration Act 212A (particularly sections 27, 28, and 29) referring to those not eligible for immigration, such as anarchists, members of the Communist Party, and persons "not recognizing organized and lawful governments...

...The pile contained just under 2,500 pages of printed matter," correspondent Robert Young reported, "probably 95 per cent of which was of no interest or, at best, of minimal value to the Tribune" With the end of another fiscal year, Young noted, the Government will be adding about 4.5 million cubic feet of paperwork to its stockpile of 30 million cubic feet of forms and records...

...By the end of the 1960s, state and local governments spent two dollars for every Federal dollar allocated to domestic programs...

...Possession of a copy recently resulted in a four-month prison sentence for a youth who "scandalized" the policemen who searched his home...

...Chile's Refugees Hours after the military coup in Chile last September 11, the junta flooded the country with leaflets calling on Chilean citizens to do their "patriotic duty" by denouncing all "foreign extremists and Chilean fanatics...

...If the purpose of the President's strategy, however, is to diminish his impeachment to the level of a trivial and irrelevant proceeding, it may well succeed...

...There is a great and growing danger that America will impeach its corrupt President while ignoring, or even affirming, the corrupt institutional framework that gave him free rein to violate the Constitution, the law, and the traditional precepts of American democracy...

...See " 'New Federalism' in the Delta" in the April 1974 issue of The Progressive...

...in unequal sentences in different parts of the country...

...Not until the Nixon Presidency was the "New Federalism" institutionalized in the form of "revenue sharing...

...Should this sensitive information reach the wrong hands, not only might the refugee's plea for immigration go ignored, but he or she would be placed in greater peril than at present...

...Chicago public relations man Budd Arthur is the founder of a new organization, HATE, Inc., designed to give a voice to "closet haters" who have been afraid to express their frustration and disgust at the world around them...

...Furthermore, the State Department says it is prepared to use "parole" authority of the Attorney General's office—the waiving of such criteria as quota restrictions and financial guarantees—in considering immigration requests...

...Rather than view us as "vulgar merchandise in the traffic of international migratory labor," they ask, consider us on humanitarian grounds, and accept us as refugees...

...Because Governor Milton Shapp, a liberal Democrat opposed to capital punishment, had pushed through a state income tax and had suffered minor scandals in his administration, he was considered vulnerable to a Flaherty challenge...

...embassy were kept shut, many embassies admitted both foreign refugees and Chilean nationals, often housing as many as 200 men, women, and children in one room...

...Israeli economist Darin-Drabkin estimated that the total capital costs needed for such an undertaking would be close to $5 billion...

...These are ugly offenses, to be sure, and they deserve to be included among the charges on which the President must be tried by the Senate...

...Education, paced by the postwar baby boom, led the way everywhere with a six-fold increase since 1950...

...The conference was funded by several Christian organizations, but its prime movers were Israeli sociologist Joseph Ben-Dak, director of the Israeli Peace Research Society in Tel Aviv, and a Jerusalem-born Palestinian, George Assousa, a physicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...

...Our several contributors suggest there is much we can and must do—as citizens, as workers, even as shareholders— to bring the corporate "kind of Frarikenstein" to heel...

...in interrogations that use physical and moral pressures...

...The study concludes, "If all other carrier deployments remain unchanged, a decision to keep a carrier task group continuously in the Indian Ocean would imply the addition of three carriers to U.S...

...Revenue Sharing: Too Much, Too Late A decade ago economist Walter Heller worried that the inadequacy of state and local governmental resources would undermine their role in the Federal system...

...Citizen," the junta appealed, "contribute to cleaning up your country of all undesirables...

...Environmental problems will require vast expenditures on pollution control and transit systems...

...Slade is news and public affairs director of radio station WMKY at More head State University in Kentucky...

...The fiscal strains on state governments led Heller, the chairman of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, to propose in the mid-1960s that the Federal Government share some of its vast revenues...

...School districts have long foregone all but the most urgent expenditures...

...Defeating former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg by about 22,000 votes, the fiscally conservative Flaherty now faces the liberal Republican incumbent, Richard Schweiker...

...It continued despite mutual suspicion about the identity and motives of the conference sponsors and organizers, despite Palestinian fears of being divided and co-opted by Israelis at this crucial time, and despite the horrifying succession of Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israeli towns and Israeli reprisal raids on Arab villages and Palestinian refugee camps...

...Remember, citizens who are indifferent help the cause of Marxism, which almost destroyed Chile...

...The American people have learned too much about this incredibly sordid Administration to maintain its leader in office for the two and a half years remaining in his term...

...We have been confronted with incontrovertible proof that corporations buy our elections...

...No Comment Buried Alive...

...The Report of the 1974 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Gulf Oil Corporation" is a handsome publication featuring the best graphics, paper, and printing money can buy...

...The National Religious Party, essential to Prime Minister Rabin's fragile ruling coalition, considers not only the status of Jerusalem non-negotiable, but Israeli control of the West Bank as well...

...Heller's call for revenue sharing was derailed by the deficits of the Vietnam war...

...Though the doors of the U.S...

...Of the originally estimated 13,000 foreign refugees in Chile at the time of the coup, between 4,800 and 5,000 are known to have left...

...They claim that few applications have been received, and they offer reasons...

...The Schweiker-Flaherty race will be one of the most interesting in the nation...

...It didn't...

...We are concerned also by the social dimensions of the current economic situation, among which we could point out the increase in unemployment and job dismissals for arbitrary or ideological reasons...

...Israelis, on the other hand, fear the establishment of a Palestinian state on their borders...

...The role of the states in the Federal system is still in question...

...JUDITH MILLER (Judith Miller is The Progressive's Washington correspondent...

...Major concentrations of non-Chilean Latin American refugees are in France (1,100), Sweden (1,000), and West Germany (1,000...

...In a report to the Association's 5,000 members, the Committee notes that it has been "unable to discern any visible movement on the part of the Justice Department to initiate a thorough investigation of the petroleum industry...

...In the Middle East, a beginning has been made—a hopeful beginning, according to our contributor, Russell Warren Howe, whose interpretation appears on page 32 of this issue—in what will surely be a long and difficult process of negotiations...

...Per-capita expenditures climbed from $166.29 in 1952 to $577.96 in 1969...

...Much of this issue of The Progressive is devoted to articles that deal, from one perspective or another, with the problem of "Coping with Corporate Power...

...Aside from this public-relations purpose, there is little point to the President's travels...

...Other organizations, such as the Emergency Committee to Aid Latin American Scholars and the American Committee for Chile, are receiving and processing applications for jobs and requesting American colleges and universities to open up positions for foreign and Chilean scholars forced to leave Chile...

...California alone reported an $800 million surplus...

...immigration applications is "complicated and lengthy...

...Do It Yourself: The Energy Crisis Committee of the National District Attorney's Association sees little likelihood that the U.S...

...The postwar baby boom, which increased the school-age population by twenty-five million, is over...

...The reductions in revenue brought about by the energy crisis should not obscure the marked improvement in the fiscal positions of state and local governments...

...He told such stockholders as were on hand that "the Senior Management of this corporation" did not "become aware" until a year later of Gulf's unlawful $100,000 contribution to the Committee to Re-elect the President, which was presumably authorized by a junior clerk and filed away under "F' for petty cash or peanuts...

...Board Chairman B. R. Dorsey walked onto the stage at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh "promptly at 9:30," we are told, and kept his composure despite "many interruptions throughout the meeting...

...There is no provision for demilitarization in the President's oft-proclaimed "generation of peace...

...In a recent statement, Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez, writing with what he characterized as "the backing of the majority of the bishops," accused the military of resorting to torture and arbitrary and lengthy detentions, of causing large-scale unemployment, of ordering job dismissals for political reasons, and of requiring the poor to "bear an excessive share of sacrifice without having the desired level of participation...

...How is it possible, then, that of the thousands of foreign refugees seeking to leave Chile, only sixteen have been accepted by the United States...

...The Progressive's own proposed Bill of Impeachment, published last December, cited among other offenses the President's attempts to "undermine, circumvent, or annul the guarantees of the Bill of Rights...

...At the beginning of the 1950s, state and local domestic expenditures were just slightly higher than those of the Federal Government...

...The essential Nixon strategy is clear: to withhold as many facts as possible—in the name of protecting the prerogatives of the presidency—while insisting at every opportunity that the President's innocence would be established if only the facts were known...

...After decades of complaints about higher taxes, the temptation will be great to roll back taxes or hold the line against new expenditure demands...

...Critics are skeptical...

...At this critical juncture, state and local leaders must choose whether to reduce the level of state spending or to meet the new challenges of the 1970s...

...The animosity of certain high American embassy officials to the Allende regime and collusion with the military, they claim, is an established fact...

...It is not, or should not be, too surprising to find that men who worked for corporations and identified themselves with the corporation's limited moral commitment and perspective, might begin to take on some of those same moral limitations in their noncorporate life, and act, in public service, in that same character...

...Alarmed by rising expenditures in the 1960s, state and local governments have succeeded in leveling off public welfare rolls...

...The United States, at this writing, has admitted only sixteen individuals...

...Each individual requesting immigrant review must CHURCH CHALLENGE IN CHILE The Catholic church of Chile has turned its heavy firepower on the military junta that seized control from the Allende regime...

...The corporation is a kind of Frankenstein, carrying great power but limited conscience...

...Hate...

...We think concentrated, expressed hate can move mountains, but we're willing to try a molehill at a time...

...But the economics and challenges which prompted Heller's proposal were already fading, and now they have passed...

...Expenditures soared from $26 billion in 1952 to more than $120 billion in 1970...

...Scandal...

...Shapp apparently then struck an agreement with Flaherty which led to Flaherty's surprise decision to oppose Denenberg instead for the U.S...

...Sound Fellow...

...Worldwide appeals by church and refugee organizations, as well as by the refugees themselves, asking for asylum, were answered by about twenty countries...

...Representative Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who heads the Black Caucus, notes that Mound Bayou residents appealed in vain for help from their local, state, and national representatives...

...Why Denenberg Lost Everyone miscalculated in the Pennsylvania Democratic senatorial primary except the winner, Mayor Pete Flaherty of Pittsburgh...

...Ben-Dak and Assousa became friendly last fall, after slowly discovering that their political aspirations for the Middle East united them more than their national origins divided them...

...After a five-fold budget increase over the past twenty years, state and local governments are finally recovering from the onslaught of postwar spending demands...

...United Press International reports from Madrid that Playboy is Spain's main underground publication...

...We are not peddling hate," he stresses...

...But they are hardly the most egregious crimes for which Nixon ought to be held accountable...

...There was general agreement that me land could sustain the estimated two million Palestinians who would wish to live there...

...Heller reasoned that state and local governments were key partners in the Federal system and were about to be swamped by spending demands their weak tax systems could not handle...

...Many observers thought the Denenberg-Flaherty race would stir the electorate...

...The return of almost $6 billion to the states and localities helped push state budget surpluses over the $10 billion mark...

...in restrictions of the normal right of appeal...

...The President's pyrotechnics abroad have their counterpart here at home, where he, his counselors, and legal advisers are taking every conceivable step to protract and confuse the proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee and the various Federal courts dealing with the sundry crimes of his Administration...

...Peanuts...

...Former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, who has had occasion in recent years to reflect on the powers and problems of the American presidency, managed in a recent commentary to isolate one of the crucial aspects of the Watergate affair—the transformation of the American Government into a corporate entity, or at least into an institution guided by corporate values and standards...

...Indian Ocean Insecurity The Pentagon's request for a naval base in the Indian Ocean is still treading water on Capitol Hill...

...Reprieve...

...Many thought that Denenberg's national reputation as the man who turned the obscure office of insurance commissioner into one of the toughest regulatory agencies in the nation would give him an insurmountable advantage over Flaherty, who was virtually unknown outside western Pennsylvania...

...The coming trial of Richard M. Nixon provides us with an opportunity to recognize these realities and to treat him not so much as an author of evil but as a willing instrument...

...Both Israelis and Palestinians concurred that the establishment of a Palestinian state, perhaps on the West Bank and Gaza territories, was possible and desirable, at least as a first step...

...The extent of agreement on general principles was the conference's most surprising feature...

...Palestinian economist Elias Tuma's estimate was lower: $3.5 billion...

...Last month, however, more than one hundred Israelis, Palestinians, concerned social scientists, and religious leaders assembled in Maryland for a weekend conference aimed at opening a dialogue among those committed to Arab-Israeli reconciliation through the creation of a Palestinian nation state on Israeli-occupied lands...

...In pleas made by the foreign refugees themselves, they deplore the detailed and selective processes used in dealing with the life-and-death matter of people in need of a place to live...

...We can begin to cope with the monster of corporate power that will endure when Nixon is gone...

...While Flaherty, famed for his cost-cutting in Pittsburgh, already has the affection of many Democrats as well as Republicans unhappy with Schweiker's liberalism, he faces a difficult fight...

...Since then she has kept in close touch with developments in Chile...

...But elements beyond his control defeated him: his being a Philadelphia Jew when the Democratic Party did not want two Jews heading the ticket, and his inability to get campaign money from organized labor (committed to Schweiker), or from the Democratic organization, or from lawyers (whom he had alienated with his drive for first rate no-fault auto insurance), physicians, dentists, hospital administrators, and insurance industry people, all stung by his aggressive consumerism...

...Such a decision, according to the study, will wind up costing the taxpayers $4.8 billion in acquisition costs, plus annual direct and indirect operating outlays of $800 million...

...to curry favor with the Liberal Establishment and the media...

...Since the United States is known throughout the world as a nation which does not offer political asylum, they say, few refugees would consider applying for U.S...

...It is an opportunity that should not be lost in squabbles over subpoenas, transcripts, and "executive privilege...

...That Denenberg, in spite of party opposition, lost the state by only 22,000 votes testifies to his toughness as a campaigner and to his popularity...

...Israeli and Palestinian economists presented papers contending that such a state could be economically viable, provided there was access to a seaport for trade, careful land use and resource planning, and a substantial influx of development capital...

...force levels...

...Although Shapp ostensibly called for an open primary, first Rizzo and then Camiel came out for Flaherty...

...The real question is whether state and local leaders will seize the opportunity to meet our social needs or to advance political fortunes through tax relief...

...The lead editorial in the May issue of The Progressive cited evidence that the supposedly "new" factors justifying an expanded U.S...

...Direct telephone lines were set up to take calls from informers, and many did their "patriotic duty...

...Ironically, the primary opposition to the Jerusalem plan came from American rabbis, who insisted that Jerusalem was a "Jewish city" whose sovereignty would never again be shared with another nation...

...Our bag is fun along with the effort to right a few injustices by making noise about them...

...that they influence and, indeed, control the policies and programs of our Government, foreign and domestic, to suit their profit-hungry ends...

...It didn't...

...in the limited possibilities for a legal defense...

...Moreover, it was agreed that a bi-national group representing these principles should be formed, called FAIR, Foundation for Arab-Israeli Reconciliation...

...Until strikes by truckers and gas station owners this year allowed Shapp to gain favorable nationwide attention as the only governor to attempt mediating the disputes in Washington, it looked like a sure Flaherty-Shapp primary fight...

...the next two will challenge their will and leadership...

...Second, party leaders made it clear to Denenberg that they did not want two Philadelphia Jews—Shapp and Denenberg—at the top of the ticket in November...

...Secretary of State Kissinger played a significant role in making that beginning, but the ceremonious meander-ings of the Nixon entourage will hardly advance the process...

...As is so often the case with "national security" expenditures, this one would not only constitute a monumental waste, but would jeopardize rather than enhance the security of the United States and the world...

...These enormous increases in spending were funded by an equally sizable increase in taxation...

...RALPH Z. HALLOW (Ralph Z. Hallow, an editorial writer for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has contributed to the Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and The Washington Post...

...naval presence in the Indian Ocean has already resulted in the postponement of the previously scheduled retirement of two aircraft carriers, a decision that will cost about $150 million in direct operating expenses for each year the retirements are delayed...

...So did the Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Democratic organization, which wished to rid itself of the maverick, Flaherty...

...Salary increases, which ballooned in the 1960s when government employes began resorting to the strike, have assumed more moderate proportions as parity with non-government employment has been neared...

...State Department, in response to the U.N...

...Though people complained bitterly about taxes, they supported the historic expansion in government spending over the past twenty years...

...After his national exposure, Shapp suddenly seemed difficult to beat...

...There was speculation that a second deal was made behind Flaherty's back: that the Democrats would dump him in the general election in favor of Schweiker, endorsed by the AFL-CIO, in return for the Republicans' dumping Shapp's Republican opponent, Philadelphia businessman Drew Lewis...

...Palestinians assert that reclaiming only part of their former land is unsatisfactory, that a New Palestine would be a "rump" state, an economic colony of Israel or Jordan...

...Per-capita taxation rose from $169.14 in 1957 to almost $400 in 1969...

...For the most part, the conferees concentrated on the founding of a New Palestine—a state on some part of Israeli-occupied land, independent of both Jordan and Israel, which would enable the Palestinians to redevelop and strengthen their cultural and political institutions...

...Denenberg, who knew precisely what he would do in Washington (go after the nonregulating regulatory agencies and bring his considerable expertise to the national health service debate, for example), was the better qualified candidate...

...We simply borrowed the word from the lunatic fringe...

...The National Council of Churches is working to repatriate, settle, and care for the refugees...

...Across the nation, as in California, government surpluses have been returned to the taxpayers...

...Having increased taxes to meet those demands, state governments now face a series of budget surpluses which mark a watershed between two eras...

...State Department spokesmen give a number of reasons for the meager number of admissions...

...that they manipulate our elected and appointed officials...

...When the French embassy could not admit another person, the French ambassador accommodated about 100 in his own home...

...By comparison, public welfare, highway, and police expenditures tripled during the postwar years...

...With both Denenberg and Flaherty in agreement on such issues as abortion and gun control (which they opposed) and capital punishment (which they favored), to the mass of voters the campaign looked like a race between two good guys—Flaherty, the taxpayers' friend, and Denenberg, the consumers' champion...

...It requires no profound political insight to fathom the object of both these exercises: The President is pulling out all the stops, and can be expected to continue doing so in the weeks and months to come, to divert the attention of Congress and the people away from the impending process of impeachment...

...Pennsylvania's Americans for Democratic Action favor Schweiker, who is already assured of organized labor's help...

...Israeli and Palestinian participants agreed to the principle of a unified Jerusalem containing both an Israeli and Palestinian borough or sector, each the capital of its state...

...We are worried, finally, in some cases, over the lack of effective legal safeguards for personal security that is evident in arbitrary or excessively long detentions in which neither the persons concerned nor their families know the specific charges against them...

...Representative Gus Yatron, Pennsylvania Democrat, who believes Americans are "being smothered under an avalanche of paperwork which is time consuming and expensive," has introduced legislation called "The Federal Paperwork Burden Relief Act...

...If the purpose of this strategy is to abort the process of impeachment, we believe it is bound to fail...

...At present, the concept of a New Palestine is obviously 3 minority position on both sides...

...Asked what committee assignments he would seek in the Senate, Flaherty told a meeting of the Sigma Delta Chi journalism society: "You don't seek them...

...The men of Watergate, McCarthy wrote in the National Catholic Reporter, were, for the most part, corporate lawyers, corporate executives, corporate public relations men, and they "carried over into government the moral limitations of the corporate person...

...The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, responding to pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, has agreed to provide another year's financing for the Mound Bayou Community Hospital and Health Center in Mississippi, which had earlier been threatened with a fund cut-off...

...STEVE SLADE (Mr...

...his seizure of "powers "not conferred by the Constitution, or powers expressly reserved to Congress"—particularly the power to wage war and to dispose of (or withhold) funds in violation of Congressional decree, and his subversion of the Federal Government to serve various private interests rather than those of the people...

...In a recent analysis of the 1975 Federal budget, Setting National Priorities, three Brookings Institution senior fellows provide information that reinforces our opposition...

...Another conference is being planned for the fall...