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Indeed, the Helms machine's freedom from the constraints of money, state lines and party labels troubles many professional politicians. Insists Tom Ellis: "We are a bridge between conservative Democrats and conservative Republicans. I would like to see a realignment under the Republican banner, but it wouldn't bother me to change the name. In the real world, it may be that all we can do is realign the Republican Party." Helms and his money club have already done that in North Carolina. -By John F. Stacks
Many things frighten politicians, but none more than change forced upon them from below by a shifting electorate. But change is coming to Cambridge--fundamental new developments that may realign the city's politics, force new alliances, move the sources of power...
Usually calm, orderly and above all non-descript, Canadian politics have suddenly been thrust into a volatile pre-election period that promises to realign Canada's traditional political balance. Faced with increasingly severe economic and political challenges, Canadian labor is beginning to forge tighter cooperative links with its old political ally, the New Democratic Party (NDP), as it prepares to deal with the increasing polarization of Canadian politics. But despite the severity of Canada's problems, the labor-NDP alliance is itself weak and encumbered with many difficulties...
...York City. His right-wing approach to international affairs is vividly reflected in his selection of Dean Rusk as his foreign policy advisor. The central theme of Carter's campaign has been the need to trim federal bureaucracy, specifically welfare bureaucracy; such language masks a more fundamental desire to realign governmental priorities and to eliminate the social welfare programs of the 60's. The brunt of this new austerity will of course be borne by poor and working people. "I think you will find," Carter's press secretary wrote in 1972, "that Senator Jackson, Governor Wallace and [Carter...
Carrying a carload of pro-Moscow propaganda, the driver was apparently on his way to a clandestine meeting of an underground group that had been plotting to overthrow Tito and realign Yugoslavia more closely with the Soviet Union. Within weeks, 32 conspirators -most of them former secret-police agents and hard-line Communist war veterans-were arrested and convicted...