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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...looks as if Washington is in for another McCarthy era. "I'm taking the kids' back to the Smithsonian later this month," says Frances Bergen, referring to her late husband Edgar Bergen's famous splinter group, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. The treesome threesome will star at the Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part...
...most vocal ones, at least, find Reagan's conservatism almost irresistible. Says Richard Zone, executive director of a new political lobby called Christian Voice: "Reagan is not the best Christian that ever walked the face of the earth, but we really don't have a choice." His group slaps Anderson with a zero rating on 14 key "moral" issues, among them abortion, school prayer, a balanced budget and strong national defense. Christian Voice regards Carter as a "good man" but "naive" and with dreaded liberal tendencies. Ted Kennedy is unthinkable. But the once divorced and remarried movie actor...
...openly homosexual schoolteachers. Since going national last year they have broadened their targets to include school busing and the Panama Canal treaty McAteer (against), Taiwan security and prosecution of welfare deadbeats (for). Three U.S. Senators and eleven Congressmen form an advisory committee. In its first year, the group claims to have enlisted 187,000 supporters, a fifth of them clergy, and it plans to spend $3 million in 1980. Voice has no tax exemption so it can be openly political. Campaign flyers will go to 5 million people. Supporters are currently being mailed "morality" voting records on all Congressmen...
Moral Majority. Virginia's TV Preacher Jerry Falwell founded this organization to mobilize believers for political purposes. He had an hourlong dinner with Reagan in Louisiana last week but has not yet endorsed him. Most of the group's $1 million war chest is targeted for registration and voter education. Moral Majority claims friendly churches have registered more than 1.5 million voters and have increased Republican primary voting in the South. It will assign 70,000 clergy to an even bigger registration blitz in July. Affiliates are at work in 43 states. The Majority is so issues-oriented...
...Roundtable. Edward McAteer, 53, of Memphis, former Colgate-Palmolive sales executive, aims at using this group to train leaders. He focuses on what Conservative Digest calls "pro-God, profamily, pro-America causes." The Round-table is scheduling six seminars this year, including one for 11,000 this June in the Dallas Coliseum. Says McAteer: "If people know why they need to be involved, they will find out how to be." A favorite question in interviews with candidates during the primaries: "If you were President, what would you do to change the spiritual and moral direction of the country...