Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...podium were Attorney General-designate Benjamin Civiletti, Watergate Judge John Sirica, New York Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi and Monsignor Gino Baroni, Assistant Secretary of HUD. Carter used the occasion for another attack on Congress. Said he: "I'm sorry to say that until now the general interest has had a hard time of it in the halls of Congress...
...women involved. Carter, in some ways the most human of Presidents, has taken the lonely ground above, dwelling with statistics, programs, philosophy. There are few zestful folks up there, and almost nobody who can get things done. Carter has only a handful of personal friends in the city, little interest in others beyond their official functions. The story of his presidency so far reads like an annual report...
...Sindona, 59, was reported kidnaped in New York City last week, hardly any one showed signs of alarm about his safe ty, not even the federal prosecutors who had planned to try him next month for fraud. The charges stem from his pur chase in 1972 of a controlling interest in New York's Franklin National Bank, which collapsed two years later in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Reason for the calm: just about everyone figured that the kidnaping was a hoax...
...President 15 years ago sought power through control of the Republican Party. In the mid-'70s, there was a feeble effort to unite diverse factions into a national conservative party. Today's New Right has different priorities. It stresses 1) the creation of coalitions among special interest groups, 2) support or opposition on specific legislation and 3) concentration on Senate and House seats that can be won. Says William Rusher, publisher of National Review and an admiring expert on the movement: "These are the first conservative groups that really have got down to electoral and legislative nitty-gritty...
While N.C.P.A.C. wages war with words, others affiliated with the New Right are attempting to organize single-interest groups against Church. A new antiabortion group called Stop the Baby Killers, with Idaho Congressman George Hansen as honorary chairman, describes Church, Culver and Bayh as "men who apparently think it's perfectly okay to slaughter unborn infants." In fact, Church favors a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion in most circumstances. He is also opposed to controls on firearms. But the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a national group with an active chapter in Idaho...