Word: rigidness
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...court are turned down by the Senate. Despite widespread approval of Reagan's choosing a woman for his first nominee, there was some organized opposition from far-right activists who felt that O'Connor's early support of the Equal Rights Amendment and her less-than-rigid voting record on abortion was a "berayal " of true-blue rightism. Taking no chances that the zealots might prevail, O'Connor was probably the most thoroughly prepared nominee in history. Justice Department officials say she spent much of the summer poring over large loose-leaf notebooks containing answers...
...week it bombed in New Haven. In a letter to 1,267 incoming freshmen, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, denounced a "self-proclaimed Moral Majority" and the New Right generally as "peddlers of coercion" and enemies of the spirit of free inquiry. Wrote Giamatti: "Angry at change, rigid in the application of chauvinistic slogans, absolutistic in morality, they threaten through political pressure or public denunciation whoever dares to disagree." Something of a conservative himself - he favors rigorous, traditional instruction and has often decried government interference in higher education - Giamatti at tacked partisans of the New Right as "those...
...religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's Tora Prison. Sheikh Abdel Hamid Kishk, a blind fundamentalist preacher renowned for his rigid Islamic orthodoxy, was jailed for his vitriolic sermons against Copts. Five other Muslim imams were also arrested, along with seven activist members of the Coptic clergy...
After neither side budged during 2½ months of fruitless talks, Poli said on May 22 that his members would walk out a month later if there were no "acceptable" Government proposal by then. The Administration responded by sending Secretary Lewis to replace Helms, whom the PATCO negotiators considered hopelessly rigid, as its chief bargainer...
...worst setback of its 33 years in power. The moderate Progressive Federal Party gained nine seats (to a still ineffectual 27). But Botha was far more concerned about the rise in popularity of the ultraright Herstigte (Reformed) Nasionale Party (H.N.P.), which strongly advocates continued white privilege, black subjection and rigid racial segregation of all kinds...