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With Reagan entrenched as the party's nominee, the Republicans' rightist elements are eagerly seizing control of the party. To a large extent, as scrutiny of the platform developed last week reveals, they already have. But they have achieved this newfound surpremacy at the expense of party moderates, who have...
Republican moderates, in the minority here, have responded in kind; they have rallied behind the former California governor, stretching their principles in the name of party unity. Of course, all Republicans still have one overriding goal in common--ousting President Carter from power. Toward that end, the party is determined...
If this is the path to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, then the road must be perilously paved. If moderates must resort to strident speeches to appease the party, then the party may push itself too far right to appease the nation. If party homogeneity is necessary to subvert the tyranny of...
Sadly, the growing extremism in the West Bank has isolated or intimidated longtime advocates of communal peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. In his quiet Ramallah apartment, Aziz Shahadeh, a lawyer since 1936, reflects on recent changes in the two communities. "I always thought that there was...
Though Khomeini cited no names, he was clearly alarmed by the bitter power struggle between moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr and hard-lining Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek...