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...goal of the group, says Pollie, is to "heal some of the obvious injury of separation." John McManus, a Catholic newspaper reporter who was once thrown out of school as a boy for beating up Protestants, is now shedding "we-they" attitudes and giving money to Episcopal missionaries. Among the most obvious beneficiaries are people in mixed marriages. Episcopalian Jean Koch used to attend Mass with her Catholic husband and daughter but secretly "felt deprived...
...conservative tracts like "Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan," an attack on the Senator's performance at Chappaquiddick. To complete the distribution system, the society sells its books and magazines at about 350 American Opinion bookstores, many of them in southern California. "We do our own publicity," McManus says. "That boils them...
...shorthand. No one ever clarifies, however, who "they" are. Several recent publications offered the following villains: Jimmy Carter, homosexuals, the Trilateral Commission, the CIA, the big oil companies, the Democratic Party, the Ford Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and most of all, the United Nations. The society itself. McManus points to a huge stack and says these are among the eight million petitions he has ready for distribution with the aim of removing the United States from that world body...
...What is Communism but total government control?" McManus asks honestly ignorant of any answer. Every political issue fits into the government/Communist control spectrum. "Are you aware that one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto is free public education?" he inquires with a smile. "You don't have a right to an education." He smiles some more when he describes how the society is spreading the good word: the speakers bureau is the second largest in the country(only Sports Illustrated's is bigger) and schedule people like ex-Marine hero Lewis Millett to expound the society line on grueling...
...paranoid," McManus says, laughing. "They are chasing...