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This week's cover story on the drive to enhance and focus black political power in the 1984 campaign is the product of reports from TIME correspondents across the country. The most demanding and rewarding assignment fell to Correspondent Jack White: covering the point man and catalyst of much of this political activity, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. It was, White says, "exhilarating, but also exhausting, getting close to Jesse Jackson. He is a man perpetually in motion." White began last month in Atlanta at the annual convention of Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity), founded...
Although most of the nitty-gritty work is being done by the S.C.L.C., the V.E.P. and the N.A.A.C.P., the point man, catalyst and Pied Piper of the registration crusade has been Jesse Jackson. No matter that other black officials are often grudging in their praise and that they resent the publicity he attracts with his flashy appearances. "Groups do work when Jesse's not around, when the reporters and cameras aren't there," says veteran Activist and Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis. Yet most admit that the flamboyant and magnetic Jackson and the "Southern Crusade" run by his Operation PUSH...
...that I understand that the political process is putting together coalitions," says Gray, who helped black Democratic Mayoral Candidate W. Wilson Goode do just that in his successful primary race last May. Gray, married with three sons, relishes the controversy he attracts. Says he: "I see myself as a catalyst for change...
...example, although the drive was far from a one-man or even a one-organization effort. His current registration crusade has received wide attention, although it is only part of a larger campaign that includes the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights organizations. "I am a catalyst for change," says Jackson. "People invite me to interpret an issue and draw a crowd...
...vital to world financial stability mainly because it serves as a catalyst for private lending. The agency makes loans only to countries that agree to launch programs to restore their economic health. Once such measures are adopted, commercial banks are usually willing to lend more to the troubled countries. Earlier this year, for example, Mexico was able to get $5 billion in new credit from private banks only after it agreed to cut public spending and received a $3.8 billion commitment from...