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Since the rise of the religious right, the semisecret involvement of so many high-powered names inevitably encourages conspiracy theories about evangelical political designs. But, in fact, the movement crosses partisan lines and remains rigorously nonpolitical. "There is a religious right that is very prominent, just as there was a very activist religious left in the '60s," says Don Bonker, a liberal Democrat from Washington State who just gave up his House seat for an unsuccessful Senate run. "But the prayer movement doesn't get into political matters. If it did, I wouldn't be involved." When it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inside The Bible Beltway | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Increasingly, a growing number of Americans are focusing on the doings of the huge, semisecret gospel business empires like PTL that have sprung up in little more than a decade of fervent television preaching (see following story). Many are not happy with what they see. A Gallup poll survey this spring showed that since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in American public esteem for four of the country's most important TV preachers: Oklahoma- based Oral Roberts (whose approval rating dropped from 66% to 28%), Swaggart (76% to 44%), Virginia's Pat Robertson (65% to 50%) and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Money | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...center of the controversy is a semisecret, radical left-wing group called the Militant Tendency. Although it is thought to have only 2,000 members, Militant has acquired disproportionate influence inside the 284,000-member Labor Party by doggedly infiltrating it at the local level. Labor's youth organization, the Young Socialists, is now believed to be controlled almost completely by Militant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Militant Moles | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...important reason for the plan's perilous passage through Congress was the misguided way the Administration had shaped up the program in the first place. In pledging to produce a National Energy Plan within 90 days of his Inauguration, and then turning the task into a semisecret crash project by a dozen staffers under Schlesinger, Carter overlooked an old truth: in Washington, people are more likely to support an idea if they have been able to help formulate it. In fact, the Administration had attempted to short-circuit opposition to many of its proposals by writing a variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Where the Carter Plan Stands | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever seen," burbles one enthusiastic investor. "The nationalists seem to feel it too. They don't want to drive the white man out. They just want to be part of the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Land of Opportunity | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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