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...weeks ago, Peter McPherson, Reagan's foreign aid administrator, appeared before conservative critics to explain grants to famine victims in Africa and the U.N.'s fund for population control. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, turned on McPherson at one point and said, "You're a disgrace. You are unfit to be in your current position." Weyrich's intemperance arose from his singular fears that American funds could be used for abortions and to feed starving people under Marxist governments...
Started in 1973 by Feulner and Paul Weyrich, who now heads a conservative political-action committee, Heritage is currently the hot shop in the public policy industry. In contrast with the liberal Brookings Institution and conservative American Enterprise Institute, which encourage scholars to produce thoroughgoing reports at their own pace, Heritage expects its researchers to study topical questions, work on tight deadlines and strive to get their results noticed or, better yet, acted upon. New studies are hand-delivered to every Cabinet officer and member of Congress. The names and specialties of 1,500 congressional aides, 700 Executive Branch staffers...
PREACHERS. The young Turks have formed a wary alliance with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...
...wife Kathy, 34, believed that the Soviets deliberately "assassinated" McDonald, and ran to serve out his fifth term. But moderate Democrat George ("Buddy") Darden trounced her, 59% to 41%. The national New Right tried but then despaired of helping Kathy McDonald. "To be perfectly candid," said Paul Weyrich, director of the right-wing Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, "they ran one of the worst campaigns I have ever witnessed. If I were a Bircher, I would believe the KGB was running the campaign...
Connaught Marshner, a Weyrich colleague, claimed that the New Right's archfoes, the feminists, did little better in defeating enemies on their own hit list. But the National Organization for Women, which had targeted certain members of the Florida and Illinois legislatures after they had defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, said it had won enough victories to get the measure passed in those states if it were to come up again...