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...record of individuals involved in the Rightist movement, according to conservative journalist Alan Crawford in his book Thunder on the Right, is not sparkling clean. Crawford's book reports that Roger Stone (later to become National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) treasurer, as well as Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chairman), while employed in the office of Herbert L. Porter at the Committee to Re-Elect the President in 1972, was involved in a "dirty tricks" campaign. A White House aide assigned Stone to make a donation to California Congressman Pete McCloskey, then a presidential primary candidate, "on behalf...
...post-election symposium held by ABC brought together three of the targeted senators, Bayh, Church and McGovern, with two of the most powerful rightist leaders in the country, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Falwell, president of the Moral Majority. Bayh took the opportunity to charge the Moral Majority with publishing propaganda stating that Bayh endorsed homosexuality and medical experimentation on aborted fetuses. Falwell denied the accusation...
...French police, not having made a single important arrest in connection with 120 incidents since 1975, were also busy dodging charges that they were soft on rightist terrorism. Criticism had been building since August, when Italian authorities disclosed that a French police officer with well-known neo-Nazi connections had visited Italian ultrarightists in July, shortly before the Bologna blast. José Deltorn, a police union official, claimed last week that 30 members of the force were known neo-Nazis. He also charged that Interior Minister Christian Bonnet has had a list of the suspect policemen on his desk...
...zest for monetarism, meaning the strict regulation of a nation's money supply as the key to economic revival. It is beginning to press for more flexibility and compassion. Employment Secretary James Prior warned the conference against endorsing the harsh anti-union stance favored by some rightist Tories. "It makes no sense," he said, "to act as though we are taking part in the Charge of the Light Brigade...
...many will follow is one of the most intriguing-and imponderable -questions of the election. Clearly the rightist preachers' potential audience is vast. Estimates vary widely, mostly according to differing definitions of who should be considered to be an evangelical. Pollster George Gallup uses a three-part definition: someone who 1) describes himself or herself as "born again"; 2) regards the Bible as the literal word of God; 3) encourages others to believe in Christ. On that basis, Gallup calculates 30 million Americans of voting age, or 19% of all U.S. adults, are members of the group...