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...mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except one: direct mail. If Walter Cronkite and Katharine Graham don't think our activities...
GREENSVILLE CO. SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE, WHERE PROMOTION IS BASED ON ACHIEVEMENT. So proclaims a sign posted outside the small, red brick headquarters of the superintendent of schools for Greensville County, Va. (pop. 16,000). Inside sits Sam Owen, a folksy, pipe-smoking administrator who four years ago announced that he was fed up with handing out "rubber diplomas" to high school graduates who could barely read or write. Greensville is one of the poorest counties in Virginia, and at the time the 3,700 stu dents, 65% of them black, in its integrated school system ranked in the bottom third...
...House leadership has already agreed with Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) that the House should debate the bill first, since Senate confirmation is likely despite an inevitable filibuster by Sen. James B. Allen (D-Ala.). The big issue now, Green says, is when Speaker O'Neill, in conference with the White House, will schedule floor debate and votes...
...overlapping, federal, state and local environmental regulations are the current headache. They are well intentioned and may indeed prevent ecological damage, but they promote inflation. Fairfax County, Va., stopped all building for 18 months while officials drew up a master plan for development; when the moratorium was lifted, pent-up demand sent land prices soaring...
...Henderson Arlington, Va...