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...annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, the world headquarters of the Mormon church. These two growing denominations are divided in doctrine, but they are increasingly close on the religious right and equally concerned about the American family. Personifying the affinity is the star speaker at the Baptist confab, conservative radio guru JAMES DOBSON, who will preach his traditional brand of "pro-family" politics, appropriate for a 15.7 million-strong denomination that intends to put family issues at the top of its legislative agenda. The conservatives, who control the convention, will also propose adding a clause to the Baptist statement...
...annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, the world headquarters of the Mormon church. These two growing denominations are divided in doctrine, but they are increasingly close on the religious right and equally concerned about the American family. Personifying the affinity is the star speaker at the Baptist confab, conservative radio guru James Dobson, who will preach his traditional brand of "pro-family" politics, appropriate for a 15.7 million-strong denomination that intends to put family issues at the top of its legislative agenda. The conservatives, who control the convention, will also propose adding a clause to the Baptist statement...
...wonder. One participant said the next confab, set for Dec. 3, will go a long way toward deciding which of the Gang of Seven is going to run. In the meantime, they have had a lot to say to each other. Their first conference call, on Oct. 22, lasted nearly two hours and ended with an agreement that members of the group would write papers and circulate the documents among themselves. In their second two-hour conversation last week, members of the group debated their papers and agreed there is a "huge" hunger for a party that is fiscally conservative...
BELLA ABZUG George Bush's sniping at her role in women's confab reminds world she's alive and kicking...
...groups. The biggest so far is the tax-relief coalition, led by Motley, which has more than 100 members and six task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass-roots lobbying, fund raising and recruitment of additional members. Its meeting last Thursday-convened four hours after the Boehner confab-was held in a G.O.P.-provided room in the West Front of the Capitol and featured an exhortation by Speaker Newt Gingrich...