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...Anderson can win. "It is everyone's obligation to vote their conscience," argued George Ward, a consulting engineer in Washington, Conn. Insisted Margaret Gilvar, a housewife in Oakham, Mass.: "It is more important that citizens who are concerned make a protest than be swayed by the impact an Anderson vote could have on the other candidacies." Contended Chicago Attorney Andrew Williams: "The fact that Anderson's chances are reduced doesn't make Carter or Reagan look any better." Asked Ann Lewis, a nursery school teacher in Ferndale, Mich.: "Why can't a vote for Anderson...
...such evangelicals are political conservatives, of course. In fact, a summer Gallup poll found evangelical voters choosing Jimmy Carter over Reagan 52% to 31%. But some analysts contend that is no true measure of the rightists' impact. For one thing, the Gallup poll included blacks, whom Falwell and his allies know they have little chance of influencing. Their efforts are directed not so much to converting Carter partisans as to politicizing the huge number of evangelicals-45% by Falwell's estimate-who usually do not vote at all. Falwell claims that in the past year ministers galvanized...
Because the new lights would increase illumination along Mem Drive by more than ten times, their impact on the neighborhoods would be disastrous, David Dawley, chairman of an area condominium committee, said yesterday...
Yankelovich said the difficulty of maintaining appeal for the political center has threatened the dominance of the liberal consensus--which he defined roughly as the supporters of the presidential bid of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.)--largely because of the impact of "spectacular success" of earlier liberals in raising the national standard of living...
...million budget, which was tabled in Belgrade last week, would fund studies into several pet UNESCO projects opposed by Western newsmen. These include a definition of "socially responsible communication" (implying criteria for news content), the "promotion of ethical principles" for journalists (feared as restricting reportorial freedom) and analyzing "the impact of advertising" (which could lead to a restrictive international advertising code). UNESCO also seems determined to push toward "special protection" for journalists-even though the MacBride report warns that this might involve setting up licensing bodies to determine which journalists should be protected...