Report Card
Corson, Ross
REPORT CARD Ross Corson Buying Elections INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES IN CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS: THE ELECTRONIC SOLUTION by Andrew Buchsbaum Democracy Project, 145 East 49th Street, Suite 9B, New...
...AND SOVIET AGRICULTURE: THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF POWER by Lester R. Brown Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C...
...Although corporate and labor PACs are limited to contributions of $5000 per candidate and individuals cannot give more than $1000, the independent committees—the most notorious is the National Conservative Political Action Committee—are not burdened by any Federal restrictions on their spending...
...12.50...
...This study provides a detailed, up-to-date chronology of events concerning Micronesia's political status...
...However, many of the proposed courses of action depend on the good faith of the South African government...
...The authors recognize that South Africa's circumstances represent the world in microcosm...
...The Micronesians lack control over appropriations and development planning...
...Unfortunately, the report also tends to turn everyone, both the oppressed and the oppressor, into victims...
...The Soviet Union will try to import 46 million tons of grain in 1982 for its people and livestock...
...Negligence, as this study shows, is far too mild a term for the way Washington has discharged its obligations to Micronesia...
...These committees, untouched by Federal campaign laws, have quickly become a potent force in American politics...
...U.N...
...Atomic Islands FROM TRUSTEESHIP TO...
...The health of the Soviet economy and the legitimacy of the government both depend on how well leaders furnish food, according to Brown...
...The U.N...
...The two countries should find their fundamental interests chained together by food...
...Parts of the territory have been transformed into U.S...
...He also proposes a tightened definition of "independent" so committees which actually contribute to campaigns can be brought under Federal spending rules...
...This report from Democracy Project, a nonprofit public policy lobby, examines the emergence of the independent PACs, chronicles their influence on elections, and suggests legislative action that may check their antidemocratic tendencies...
...system rests, to a great extent, on the ability of the Government to find markets for the substantial food surplus produced by American farmers each year...
...The new food connection between the United States and the Soviet Union," Brown concludes, "may represent the most important change in relations between the two countries since the Cold War began a generation ago...
...It demonstrates in clear economic terms that the United States and the Soviet Union need each other...
...The authors suggest that "the South African government is both the jailer and the jailed," but neglect their own observation on another page that the white minority profits considerably from the present arrangement...
...While South Africa's wounds will not be healed entirely by the elimination of racist policies, apartheid remains its principal problem...
...After thirteen years of negotiations, the Compact of Free Association granting the islands of Micronesia formal independence from the United States is on the verge of completion...
...The Pentagon has used the islands as sites for nuclear testing, displacing some inhabitants and radioactively contaminating others...
...World in Microcosm SOUTH AFRICA: CHALLENGE AND HOPE by the Southern African Working Party of the American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...could exercise broad military and administrative powers...
...They have protested, sometimes successfully, against military projects that threatened their environment, their livelihood, even their lives...
...2.00...
...Displaying great hope, Lester Brown argues that the increasing dependence of the Soviets on American grain—and a corresponding U.S...
...4.95 A group of distinguished scholars and activists has spent more than two years analyzing the history and current status of South Africa's apartheid system, in which a "white, wealthy, and westernized minority exercises and maintains dominance over a black majority through military force...
...A prisoner has but a single need: to get out," the authors comment...
...The Food Chain U.S...
...REPORT CARD Ross Corson Buying Elections INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES IN CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS: THE ELECTRONIC SOLUTION by Andrew Buchsbaum Democracy Project, 145 East 49th Street, Suite 9B, New York, NY 10017...
...This means more than a fourth of all Soviet grain will come from abroad, and the United States will provide about one-half of the imported grain...
...funds provide 85 per cent of the islands' 1982 budget...
...Similarly, the U.S...
...And the material advantages are enough to make the minority rulers unwilling to accept change...
...Noting the importance of the electronic media, Buchsbaum recommends several ways in which candidates could be given free air time to respond to attacks by independent groups...
...It also includes sections of the proposed Compact and subsidiary agreements, along with critical comments drawing implications for the future of Micronesia's political and economic health...
...Nevertheless, the people of Micronesia have resisted American efforts to keep them dependent...
...dependence on the Soviet Union as an agricultural market—may establish conditions for lasting peace between the superpowers...
...missions, visiting year after year, have criticized the U.S...
...American activities in Micronesia have blocked moves toward political and economic independence for the islands...
...MICRONESIA AND ITS FUTURE by the Micronesia Support Committee and the Pacific Concerns Resource Center 1212 University Ave., Honolulu, HI 96826 or P.O...
...4.50...
...There may be a multitude of problems after release, but the basic one will be solved with freedom...
...Although the report acknowledges the economic foundations of racist oppression, they emphasize, for better or worse, the spiritual crisis caused by apartheid...
...military installations...
...The report concludes with a number of practical recommendations that individuals and groups, inside and outside of South Africa, may wish to follow to turn the country from its ways...
...Box 27692, Honolulu, HI 96827...
...20036...
...This study analyzes the history of Micronesia's trusteeship and the proposed Compact...
...Government for its negligence in carrying out those stated duties...
...Spending by purportedly independent political action committees (PACs) in Congressional elections skyrocketed 2000 per cent between 1976 and 1980—from less than $800,000 to more than $16 million...
...encourage the development of fisheries, agriculture, and industries...
...Since 1947, Micronesia has been the only United Nations "strategic" trusteeship, a status under which the U.S...
...Trusteeship agreement obliged the United States to "promote the development of the inhabitants of the trust territory toward self-government and independence as may be appropriate and to this end . . . promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants...
...protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources, [and] protect the health of the inhabitants...
Vol. 46 • December 1982 • No. 12
