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...sample project would have a student work with a neo-pagan group and explore their sense of reli- giosity," Mitchell said...
Dynamic and high-profile achievers, every one, yet none of these preachers can compare to Robertson as a TV entrepreneur. Robertson pioneered the first religious TV station, the first reli- gious network and the first Christian programming to use a talk-show format, as well as a number of now widely imitated viewer-response and fund-raising techniques. He was also the first Christian broadcaster to sign up commercial sponsors, a development that ; appears to be the trend of the 1980s. His 24-hour CBN network reaches 30 million subscribers, making it not only the largest Christian cable operation...
...shot battle to wipe out the President's commanding lead in popular support. The furor sublimated Mondale's long-awaited unveiling of his plan to slash the huge federal deficit by two-thirds within four years (see following story). The only hope for the Democrats in the reli gious controversy was that a backlash might grow against the intrusion of the bishops, as well as Protestant Fundamentalists, into partisan politics...
...rearmament pro gram, however, the Administration has concentrated too much on the development of more big-ticket nuclear weapons and not enough on building up conventional forces. If America's conventional defenses were stronger, they would constitute a more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war?than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...
...might at first glance seem worrisome to environmentalists because electric utilities have long argued that no existing technology can clean coal smoke. But the Environmental Protection Agency points to two recent studies showing that pollution-abatement devices now in use can remove toxic gases from smokestack emissions reli° ably and effectively. In any > case, says Michael McClos-8 key, executive director of the Sierra Club, "the limiting factor is not scrubbers, but whether we can produce sufficient coal supplies...