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...right: his clever tactic of positioning himself as the only Democratic centrist and his impressive grasp of the issues have made Gore, at 39, a viable contender for the top spot. But in recent weeks he has become something more: the only Democrat building a solid geographic base and, partly as a result, the only contender in either party developing an early lock on at least the second spot on a ticket. Having decided to concentrate on the South rather than Iowa and New Hampshire, the junior Senator from Tennessee has been reaping a daily harvest of endorsements from leaders...
...Centrist Republicans, however, regarded Nitze -- a Democrat since 1952 -- as an asset to bipartisan foreign policy. In 1969 Nixon personally asked Nitze to help launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He played a key part in negotiating the SALT I treaty of 1972 and worked on SALT II until he resigned in 1974, accusing Nixon of making too many concessions for the sake of an agreement that might save his embattled presidency from the effects of the Watergate scandal...
...Duarte is really interested in is power," Hernandez said through an interpreter. "He was not elected because he had the capacity to lead but because the Reagan Administration needed to put a person in who looked like a centrist...
...embraced, like revitalizing education, are apple-pie issues that provoke little dissent. Others, such as his opposition to the colorization of Hollywood films, can be ridiculed as merely trendy. More significantly, he has edged leftward from his moderate moorings (he was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group) as he plays to the liberal activists who dominate the Iowa caucuses. He has reversed his support of tuition tax credits and now opposes back-door federal aid to private schools. He has soft-pedaled his stance on abortion, which he had opposed since his aldermanic days. "Current...
Churches of Christ dot the country; religiousexperts say they are the inheritors of the 19thcentury Campbellite Fundamentalist reform movementin America. The Church of Christ should not beconfused with the United Church of Christ, a muchmore centrist descendant of the New EnglandCongregationalist tradition...