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...PANAMA CANAL TREATY was the first major target on Viguerie's hit-list. While the Republican Party waffled on the treaty in 1978, the New Right organized. It enlisted conservative groups, raised money through direct mail, and flew a "Truth Squad"--including Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives...
...gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel. Mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho led the Mountain States in production of lead ($49 million) and zinc ($24 million) last year. Silver and gold, those minerals that helped build and bust 19th century boom towns like Goldfield, Nev., and Silver City, Idaho, are still being mined in great quantities. The Mountain States produce 70% of the nation's gold and 50% of its silver. Not all of the companies streaming into the Rockies come with drilling equipment and mining machinery. By 1975, for the first time...
...other important contests, Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, overcame accusations of corruption and an official Senate "denouncement" to defeat opponent Mack Mattingly, while incumbent Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Robert Dole (R-Ka,) and Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) all marched to convincing victories...
Reagan advisers and political analysts tend to agree that Bush's nomination represents a triumph of electoral logic over sentiment. (Bush was chosen, for instance, over Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), a close friend and ideological cohort of Reagan whose selection would have put two conservative Westerners on the ticket.) A Texas oil industry, Bush has the advantage of a split geographical background. While a presidential candidate, he won six primaries--including those in the key states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan--and is being counted on to help Reagan in those areas where the former California governor is weakest...
...rivals. "We have a blank check in terms of the time these men have available for us and the energy they are willing to invest. This kind of equanimity is highly unusual for us, and we intend to play it for all it is worth," Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), Reagan's campaign chairman, said last summer after the harmonious convention...