Word: rightward
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Brown, who is Black, says he thinks the nation's rightward slide is definitely reflected at Harvard. "You see a lot of your typical, chest-beating, angry white males, the group is smaller but just as vocal, and like the rest of the nation's, their arguments aren't too well thought out," he says...
Still, there is a sense that the N.R.A. is being propelled rightward by a tiny alite. Critics charge that this cadre has seized power by capitalizing on the N.R.A.'s poor internal voter turnout. Though some 33% of members are eligible to vote, just 7% cast ballots. N.R.A. leaders went to great lengths last week in Phoenix to deny any serious rupture within the board. And despite speculation that hard-liners Knox and Metaksa might try to wrest control of the board from the somewhat more moderate helmsmanship of Washington and LaPierre, no putsch transpired. "The N.R.A. plays political games...
...gone," said James Ives, another sergeant in McVeigh's Army infantry unit. He worked himself hard on his own time, hoping to qualify for the Army Special Forces. After he failed to make it, friends say, McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated. His politics veered far rightward. He claimed that the Army had implanted a computer chip in his buttocks. He was distraught over the 1993 destruction of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and, about that time, bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon, a gun banned by law last year. Those who knew him in Michigan said...
...antiwar majority and his attempt, he later said, was a mistake because "it destroyed my core support." Like Muskie, Dole is now trying to adapt himself to the changing center of gravity in his party. That he should have to make the effort at all tells you how far rightward the G.O.P. has tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food stamps and AIDS research, for example--is cited by his opponents as proof that he is a closet moderate, which for many hard-core conservatives...
What Perot lacks at the moment is a clear rationale for a sequel. Last year he urged his followers to give the Republicans a shot at ruling Congress. Perotistas, who lean rightward anyway, voted for the G.O.P. by a ratio of 2 to 1. Now Republicans must be given an opportunity to satisfy Perot's following. "They basically have adopted our 1992 platform," Perot contended in a TIME interview. "Then the question is, Will they deliver? That's all that matters to us." With Perot doing the grading, Republicans may have little chance of passing the test...