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Carter's excursions are just part of a new Administration campaign to sell its energy ideas to the public. White House staffers and members of the Energy Department have formed subcommittees to pursue 13 different goals, including winning approval of the synthetic fuels bill and the windfall profits tax. Last week Carter proposed using $1.6 billion of the projected revenue from the tax next winter to help poor people pay the rising costs of heating their homes...
Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford, lead of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, warns that his party's control of the upper house is under serious threat for the first time in a quarter-century. Party Tactician Terry O'Connell, observing that House Democrats are also worried, says: "Everyone I know is scared to death of this thing." Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett explored the reasons for this anxiety. His report...
...contributions, the leaders often confer on policy and tactics. Frequently the host is Richard Viguerie, 45, the direct-mail conglomerateur whose enterprises in Falls Church, Va., are expected to gross nearly $20 million this year. Viguerie, who said last week that he will work for the John Connally campaign, is at once an adviser, technician and promoter for the New Right. In his mass mailings and monthly Conservative Digest-an indulgence that ran up a $1.5 million loss last year-Viguerie plugs the newest and most active groups...
Dolan got into politics as a Republican volunteer in his native state of Connecticut and at 21 was a paid organizer in the 1972 Nixon campaign. "I'm ashamed to admit that now," he says. In 1976, as a protest gesture against the major parties, he voted for the Libertarians...
...spending provided that there is no connection between the advertiser and the political beneficiary of the advertising. In Idaho, Church does not even have an announced opponent yet. His probable rival is Republican Congressman Steven Symms, who says that he has "no reason to be interested in a dirty campaign" against Church...