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...drive began in earnest last Monday as amendment supporters staged a night vigil on the Capitol steps in a rainstorm, praying for prayer. Inside the House chamber no amendment had yet been approved by committee, but 59 Representatives, mostly Republicans, took the floor Monday afternoon to speak in favor of one in a session that rolled on until well past dawn on Tuesday. Many speakers associated the absence of prayer in schools with such social evils as drug abuse and sexual promiscuity. Virginia Republican Frank Wolf charged dramatically that the rate of teen-age suicides "began to climb at approximately...
That expensive steel-and-sheet-metal postscript, the assembly building, shelters the newly assembled spacecraft until it is ready for loading. The job begins in a hulking concrete structure called the Payload Preparation Center, a stationary, 147-ft-high building. There, in a relatively particle-free chamber, the spy satellites and other exotic space gear to be carried aloft will be given final checks in sealed chambers. Explains Engineer O'Gorman: "If we do the job right you should be able to take a transistor radio in there and not pick up a single outside signal." This feature...
...specific audiences. The Southwest Voter Education Project is aiming to register Hispanic voters in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Project VOTE wants to reach people in cheese and unemployment lines, and Frontlash is gunning for voting-age youths. Meanwhile, from the right side of the spectrum, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is putting together a booklet to encourage businessmen to vote, and the Republican National Committee is making special efforts to enlist members of the armed forces and evangelicals...
...disaffection that several minority groups have for Reagan. Voter registration could be the campaign fiasco that leaves egg all over the collective GOP face, which is why Republicans are spending so much money for relatively few votes. But they are treading carefully. The Republicans and their allies especially the Chamber of Commerce and the Moral Majority-want to tap only those constituencies they are after-in particular businessmen, young professionals, people who live near army bases, and evangelical Christians; otherwise, they could awaken a sleeping giant...
Conservative groups also have to deal with the proliferation of complicated registration rules from state to state. The book put out by the Chamber of Commerce, for instance, is intended "to lead business people through the morass of voter registration laws," says John A. Kochvar, director of the Chamber's Political Action Committee. The Chamber has targeted managerial and corporate employees, whose voting power, they believe, is diluted by their high mobility and frequent travel on election days...