Public interest power games: turf wars at the Fund for Peace.

Nation, The, March, 1990 by Corn, David

Surf wars and political battles are endemic to the Washington power game, and even the people in the public-interest community who lobby for idealing over strategies and tactics, clashes of ego and all sorts of maneuvering distract from the real work at hand. The Fund for Peace is one significant player in this small world that has had a fair share of such commotion in the past year. In three instances a dispute has occurred between the fund and a member group.

Founded in 1967 by Randolph Parker Compton, a well-heeled liberal Republican investment banker and one worlder, the fund's mission has been not so much to finance organizations, as its name might imply, but to provide support services like bookkeeping, tax-exempt status and fiduciary management for...

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