Word: backlash
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Since Ronald Reagan is the favorite of Falwell and Co., this looks like an election-eve attempt to stir a religious backlash against Reagan. But Lear, a contributor to John Anderson's campaign, denies partisan intent. PAW involves a wide assortment of public figures both secular and spiritual (among them: Editor Norman Cousins, former FCC chairman Newton Minow, Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, President M. William Howard of the National Council of Churches). PAW, moreover, is only one of several groups. Similar alarms have been sounded in recent weeks by the bishops of the Episcopal...
...polls indicate a backlash gathering against such attacks, and Culver is stimulating it by doing some loud Bible-thumping of his own. He ridicules the Christian Voice list of issues as a warped test of morality, pointing out that Florida Congressman Richard Kelly scored 100%-before being indicted for allegedly taking ABSCAM bribes. The list, thunders Culver, says nothing about such Christian concerns as helping the poor, hungry and sick...
Edward Baker, a research associate in East Asian Legal Studies at the Law School who has been involved in South Korean politics, said the U.S. could have made a difference in both the military backlash which followed last spring's student uprisings at Kwangehu and the arrest and sentencing of opposition leader Kim Dae Jung...
...with choices, not absolutes." Caddell claims the election is a choice between two men, not a referendum on Carter's first four years. Translation: every Democratic speaker hammers away at Reagan on every possible occasion-and Caddell counsels them to have no fear that they will create a backlash of sympathy for the Republican. Says he: "The success of negative campaigns in American politics since 1978 has been almost unabated. There has been almost no backfire...
GUATEMALA. The upheavals in Nicaragua and El Salvador, in turn, have fed a rightist backlash in Guatemala. The main source of right-wing violence is the Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA), a vigilante organization that appears to enjoy the cooperation of the country's repressive military leaders. The group's avowed mission: "Annihilate the left"-meaning anyone from a Marxist guerrilla to a moderate reformer. As in El Salvador, victims of ultraright hit squads include university students and professors, journalists, union leaders, priests and opposition politicians, many of whom have been tortured and mutilated. Armed leftists, meanwhile, have...