Word: group
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surely make another strong pitch for a standby gasoline-rationing program and his windfall-profits tax on oil companies, to accompany the decontrol of domestic oil prices that he hopes will arrest the decline in U.S. oil output. That scarcely adds up to a sweeping program. Unhappily, the only group that seems to have a clear idea of how it wants to manage the energy crisis is OPEC...
Although both sides are equally matched in rhetoric, the advantage on the field had been held for several years by the pro-choice forces, fighting mainly in the courts. Now the momentum has swung to the pro-life groups, and the struggle has shifted to the political arena. The pro-lifers operate on the premise that in a close election, a single-issue group's ability to arouse legions of morally and religiously inspired campaign workers and voters can provide a decisive edge at the polls. The beneficiaries are usually conservative candidates. Moreover, to increase their clout...
...National Pro-Life Political Action Committee. Based in Chicago, this group is headed by Father Charles Fiore, 45, a Dominican priest with a reddish beard and a combative temperament that sometimes offends his superiors. When Father Fiore urged Catholics to stop contributing to any community fund drive benefiting organizations that aid abortions, John Cardinal Cody ordered him to stop preaching in the Chicago archdiocese. One reason: some of the same fund drives also support Catholic charities. Uncowed, Father Fiore asks: "What does it profit an archdiocese if it gains $3.7 million and suffers the loss of its own soul...
...Life Amendment Political Action Committee. Run in Washington by Paul Brown, 41, a soft-spoken former executive of the K mart Corporation, this group is best known to antiabortionists for its hit lists of pro-choice incumbents. Its record of victories is impressive, though its leaders often count among them politicians who were defeated for reasons other than their stands on abortion. Nevertheless, Brown's outfit has been effective as a link between Washington and activists at state and congressional levels who are fighting against abortion. Brown raised $95,000 last year for congressional campaigns and hopes to funnel...
...obvious that they're a group of ambitious young men who want to go into business for themselves," Eckstein said yesterday...