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...Republican National Convention this summer in Dallas, National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) Chairman Terry Dolan announced plans one morning for a fund-raiser to be held at the ranch of multibillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Included in the press packet was a "Statement of Principle," which read in part: "We believe that if one is indeed hungry, there is always honorable work. We believe that aid should be forthcoming to the truly troubled, by a body most likely to know him by name...
Those pay provisions seem to represent a victory for GM. Said Alfred Nelson, an industry analyst with Wall Street investment firm Becker-Paribas: "GM has clearly got the better part of the bargain. The settlement is yet another indication of the shift of power from labor to management...
...under wraps, the public part has come to dwell on anything but politics. Concurrent with the rise of political action committees has come the practice of celebrity politics. Remember the rock'n'roll politics of the 1980 campaign, where musicians like the Gregg Allman Band, Linda Ronstadt, and Willie Nelson lent their public image for limited political exploitation? This year Ronald Reagan has been the most effective practitioner of this ruse, craftily manipulating the names and photos of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and others for his own re-election...
...more. Put on the Willie Nelson record. Turn up Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Woody Guthrie will do fine too, and even John Philip Sousa is permissible. The Zeitgeist has turned zesty. The U.S. is at peace, and between rising employment and fading inflation, the economy is aglow. Americans are feeling more sanguine and comfortable about their country than they have felt in two decades. A rebirth of the American spirit, as Carter dearly hoped five summers ago? It sure feels like it. Even the walkouts called against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...dismisses the phenomenon as gassy and unreal. "There seems to be a concerted effort in the media," Lasch says, "to present this view of a vast improvement in the public morale. But I doubt that it's much more than an emerging consensus in the media." Farmer Ron Nelson of Columbus, Kans., harbors a similar skepticism. "I have a wait-and-see attitude," he says. "It's easy to see flag waving during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted during the Olympics. But do we have it because we feel it or because...