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This essentially anti-Reagan campaign may unite the Kennedy and Carter wings of the party in the polling booths on Nov. 4, but it is unlikely to generate much enthusiasm for the President. Just how to do that is the subject of dispute inside the Carter organization. One group believes that Carter's record is actually better than he gets credit for; the problem is that the White House has failed to communicate it effectively. Says an aide: "Carter can actually run on his record, as ridiculous as that may sound at first to some people." But Caddell disagrees...
...Conference Board, a Manhattan business research group, last week also reported a sharp increase in consumer confidence. The monthly survey of 5,000 households had been declining steadily since November 1979, and it hit bottom in May, when only 42.1% felt optimistic about current business conditions and the future of the economy. But Fabian Linden, the director of the survey, reports: "There was a rather marked and surprising increase in consumer spirits beginning in June, and that was repeated more dramatically in July." In those two months, the index spurted 16 points...
...more than a decade outraged environmentalists have marched countless companies into court on charges that they are polluting nature. But a corporation has turned the tables and sued the environmentalists for libel. One year ago, Rick Webb, 31, coordinator of West Virginia Mountain Stream Monitors Project, an environmental group, charged in his sporadically produced newsletter that the strip-mine operation of the D.L.M. Coal Corp. of Buckhannon, W. Va., had "destroyed" seven miles of trout streams on the Buckhannon River as a result of sulfuric acid and iron poisoning. Webb's complaint helped result in a federal inspection...
...briefly tantalizing moment last week, those were the questions being asked in the world of Big Oil. Breathless dispatches out of Lagos, Nigeria, hinted at an erupting major scandal. On one side were the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Mobil and Gulf Oil. Arrayed against them was the ten-month-old civilian government of President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, which seemed to be charging that the oil companies had somehow or other tricked it out of 183 million bbl. of high-quality Nigerian crude. The government appeared to demand that the oil be either returned or paid for. The situation took on added...
...more noted for its third-page cheesecake than its investigative prowess, reported that approximately $5 billion was missing from the accounts of the government-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. In response to the charges, the newly installed Shagari government last spring appointed a five-man tribunal to investigate. The group's report, which was released two weeks ago, noted that the government's oil records were a shambles, but that there was no evidence of any missing funds...