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First poll on Webster abortion decision (Los Angeles Times, July 3) favored it, 47 to 40 per cent. Three days later, Newsweek/Gallup showed opinion reversal: 51 to 37 per cent against decision to restore to states leeway on abortion legislation. . . . Not surprising. By Friday, July 7, says Roger Craver, head of a major Falls Church, Va., direct-mail firm, his organization had put ten million pieces of pro-abortion literature into the mail. Craver’s firm was hired by pro-abortion Gang of Four: NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), Planned Parenthood, NOW (National Organization for Women), and ACLU. . . . At NOW convention in Cincinnati, Molly Yard led her troops into left field with calls for lesbian rights, a new political party, “gender-balance laws”—half of all appointees to government boards and commissions to be women. . . . Former NOW president Eleanor Smeal admitted these proposals might strike people as “stupid, naive, weird,” but, she said, only through provocative proposals will women win full equality. . . . Court came under fire at NAACP convention, where Benjamin Hooks commented: “The Supreme Court seems to be hellbent on destroying the few gains minorities and women have made in this century” and called the Justices (five of them, anyway) “a bunch of plunderers who subvert the Constitution.” … In New Jersey, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Courier, a pro-lifer until July 3, started waffling on his antiabortion commitment July 4, told Bergen Record that abortion “has never been on the top of my agenda.” Which has run him afoul of John Tomicki, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life movement. The New Jersey governor’s race, says Tomicki, “is the crossroads of the revolution.” … In Connecticut another political revolution was concluded last week when Lowell Weicker’s handpicked Republican state chairman, Robert Polinar, chose not to run again. He has been replaced by conservative State Rep. Dick Foley, who has appointed George Krivda as executive director of party. Human Events describes Krivda as “the Lee Atwater of Connecticut.”

“Are the Greens staying behind to clear things up?”

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First poll on Webster abortion decision (Los Angeles Times, July 3) favored it, 47 to 40 per cent. Three days later, Newsweek/Gallup showed opinion reversal: 51 to 37 per cent against decision to restore to states leeway on abortion legislation. . . . Not surprising. By Friday, July 7, says Roger Craver, head of a major Falls Church, Va., direct-mail firm, his organization had put ten million pieces of pro-abortion literature into the mail. Craver’s firm was hired by pro-abortion Gang of Four: NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), Planned Parenthood, NOW (National Organization for Women), and ACLU. . . . At NOW convention in Cincinnati, Molly Yard led her troops into left field with calls for lesbian rights, a new political party, “gender-balance laws”—half of all appointees to government boards and commissions to be women. . . . Former NOW president Eleanor Smeal admitted these proposals might strike people as “stupid, naive, weird,” but, she said, only through provocative proposals will women win full equality. . . . Court came under fire at NAACP convention, where Benjamin Hooks commented: “The Supreme Court seems to be hellbent on destroying the few gains minorities and women have made in this century” and called the Justices (five of them, anyway) “a bunch of plunderers who subvert the Constitution.” … In New Jersey, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Courier, a pro-lifer until July 3, started waffling on his antiabortion commitment July 4, told Bergen Record that abortion “has never been on the top of my agenda.” Which has run him afoul of John Tomicki, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life movement. The New Jersey governor’s race, says Tomicki, “is the crossroads of the revolution.” … In Connecticut another political revolution was concluded last week when Lowell Weicker’s handpicked Republican state chairman, Robert Polinar, chose not to run again. He has been replaced by conservative State Rep. Dick Foley, who has appointed George Krivda as executive director of party. Human Events describes Krivda as “the Lee Atwater of Connecticut.”

“Are the Greens staying behind to clear things up?”