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The article focuses on the political and social conditions in the United States. As the U.S. House of Representatives was about to begin debating a modest campaign finance reform bill, former Enron Corp. CEO Kenneth Lay was taking the Fifth before the Senate commerce committee. The goal was to game the system, the reform bill in favor of Enron in regulatory agencies. The article also focuses on the campaign reform for elections for the post of Mayor in New York. This was the first full election under the 1998 reforms to New York City's public campaign finance law. The revised law provides four dollars of public funding for every dollar of private money for contributions up to $250, to candidates who accept spending limits.

The article focuses on the U.S. political and social conditions. After approving $3 billion for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's budget, members of the U.S. Congress have acknowledged that nobody really has much of a notion what the company should be doing these days. Last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sent the voting rights community into turmoil when she likened North Carolina's racially drawn 12th Congressional District to "political apartheid." Her majority decision in Shaw v. Reno resulted in a deluge of court challenges to "majority/minority" or "race conscious" election districts.

The article presents information about various socio-economic and political developments taking place in the United States. The panic produced in financial and commercial circles by the Chicago fire has subsided; but the real magnitude of the calamity begins only now to be measured. In Wall Street, the alarm reached its height on Saturday, prices rallying sharply from the lowest points, and working, with moderate fluctuations at best, a slight level above the extreme decline. The war between the two Republican factions seems only to grow fiercer as the election approaches.

This article focuses on the political condition of the U.S. If words could be taken at, face value, then one could say that the American people have suddenly achieved a remarkable unanimity of views on the social revolution that is under way in the South. From right to left, North to South, politicians are battling for possession of the right verbalisms. In measuring the magnitude of the disaster which has overtaken politician Adlai Stevenson in Minnesota, the marked advantages which he enjoyed must be emphasized. His campaign was lavishly financed, with state-wide television hookups, student rallies, teas, coffee klatsches and smorgasbords. In short he had every advantage and still he lost.

The article presents information on the political and social conditions of the U.S. Normally the winning by an American of a Nobel prize would be considered a juicy item by the United States Information Agency (USIA), whose function it is to help build American prestige abroad. But when Linus Pauling, distinguished biochemist, won the award a few days ago, the USIA's Voice of America was forbidden to mention the fact. The results of the November 2 election in the U.S. are now declared. A spirited Republican finale, sparked by well-paid hucksters, coupled with a faulty analysis of issues and bad timing on the part of the Democrats, aborted what would otherwise have been a decisive Democratic victory.

The article presents information on socio-political conditions of the U.S. The election in Charleston county, South Carolina, last week, of a new county delegation to the Legislature in place of the members who were refused seats at the last session, shows that the Republican party in that State is, for the present at least, completely broken to pieces. At the last election the Republicans chose seventeen delegates by an average majority, as was alleged, of about 6,500. The feature of the week at the New York Stock Exchange was the advance of 13 1/4 per cent in Morris and Essex stock and 5 1/2 per cent in Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western stock, and a sympathetic improvement in coal-company shares.

This article discusses the socio-political conditions of the U.S. On the domestic front, the next Administration will face an even, greater economic task than that faced by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Administration in the worst days of the Great Depression. The cost of failure would be chaos and distress exceeding that of the early thirties. The post-war economic problem can be stated in terms of production and employment. The election provides an opportunity for the American people to give their verdict on the record of their war leaders.