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Efforts to release the hostages are currently blocked by a power struggle between the moderates led by Bani-Sadr, the conservative clergy, and the militants, Banuazizi said.
The Republicans have been bedeviled off and on since 1964 by the bitter party split between moderates and conservatives. In 1976, Reagan's defeat at the convention led many of his supporters to offer at most lukewarm support to the Ford candidacy. This year, so far, the party has...
Battle lines are also being drawn over legislation before the Cortes (parliament) concerning two bitterly divisive issues: legalized divorce and secular education. Both measures are not only anathema to the still powerful Roman Catholic hierarchy, but are also hotly contested by the left, which wants even greater reform. Such controversies...
As the political season began, the nation was supposed to see a new Reagan: as conservative as ever, but speaking in gentler words, campaigning less strenuously, maintaining a benign air toward rivals. The reasoning was developed by John Sears: after his previous campaigns, all Republicans knew where Reagan stood, so...
But Reagan's ideological cohort-men like Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms-could never accept the know-it-all interloper. They kept sniping at him. They complained that while Sears was vainly trying to win over Eastern moderates, he was alienating the conservative faithful...