Most Businessmen Have a Fairly Accurate Reading of Their CompetitionnHow About Their Opposition?nThe magazines and activist groups which mold and manipulate public opinion toward anticapitalistngoals are now big business. Their impact in recent years has grown more potentnthrough a network of multinational support groups. The last election has given this activity anvibrant new impetus, with funds and memberships on the increase. There is now a muchngreater readiness to form coalitions among groups whose goals previously had seemed remotenfrom one another.nIt is clear that the conflict between the interests of the business community and these anticapitalistnforces is going to become more intense during the eighties.nPersuasion At Work is a newsletter specifically designed to keep the businessman apprisednof the important developments in this opinion-making contest. Each month we offernan analysis of a publication, an organization or a movement pushing public attitudes one waynor the other on an issue of importance to the business community.nThese commentaries are drawn from direct sources including attendance at the meetingsnof activist groups, study of their promotional literature and monitoring of their periodicals.nAmong the groups and issues that we’ve addressed in recent months:nC’oinniiin Cause vs. P.AC’s or Business as the Fall Guyn”Ihus the distiislc wliiL-h Common Cause holds lor PAC’snshould comt” HN no surpiist:. lor it is primarily through suchncommittees that the business community. badly mauled bynthe regulatory and fiscal excesses olthe l96()Vand 1970″h hasnliiinid an elteetie political voice tor restoring some balance andnsanity to tederal economic and regulatory policies. Comnn)nnCause, quite understandably, prel’ers fewer and le^s-assertivenaet