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...Reagan flops, Dolan will have a hard time convincing frustrated voters that they want further cutbacks on social programs and money spent on defense. Either way, Weicker figures Dolan will shoot his political wad too early on non-economic issues such as abortion, prayer in schools, and the Panama Canal treaty. "The bulk of the people are too busy worrying about paychecks to be distracted over the long run by the single-issue movement," Weicker says...
...have a situation where they have said, 'We're going to lift the grain embargo against the Soviets, the Panama Canal treaty was awful, the SALT treaty should be rejected, no aid for New York City, no aid for Chrysler, that kind of thing. You follow through on that attitude, you've got chaos," he adds...
...PANAMA CANAL TREATY was the first major target on Viguerie's hit-list. While the Republican Party waffled on the treaty in 1978, the New Right organized. It enlisted conservative groups, raised money through direct mail, and flew a "Truth Squad"--including Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives...
...State in 1977, he lured Christopher back to Washington as his top deputy. "The two were like bookends," says one former colleague. Under Vance, Christopher handled more than his share of delicate diplomatic assignments, some of them at home. He was charged with rallying Senate support for the Panama Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over...
...beliefs underpin the conservatives' long-term confidence in themselves. First, they agree that the liberal leadership is feeble, if not deceased. Viguerie describes them as "totally out of synch with the people; you try raising money to give away another Panama Canal." He predicts it will take the Democrats four to seven years to regain consciousness after the knockout of 1980, and adds that by then, Republicans will have a collective headlock on the opposition, while the New Right continues to rabbit punch in close...