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Republicans, who have traditionally called for tax cuts, have failed to capitalize on the new sentiment. When asked which party would fight harder to cut taxes, 24% said the Republicans and 23% said the Democrats, with the remainder being unsure or seeing no difference. Similarly, 29% of those polled said the Democrats would run the government more efficiently, whereas only 22% said the Republicans would. Democrats were seen by a 30%-to-24% margin as more likely to "keep the economy prosperous." Voters did not express overwhelming confidence in either party to handle the tax issue, but those...
...antitax sentiment a purely conservative trend. If voters had a choice between two candidates who expressed the same views on taxes, but one was generally perceived as a moderate and the other as a conservative, voters surveyed would tend to choose the moderate by a 47%-to-43% margin. But people do not intend to vote solely on the tax issue: only a third of those surveyed said they would switch away from an otherwise preferred candidate if he took a stand against a tax cut, less than the percentage of voters who said they would abandon a preferred candidate...
Dissent in the Soviet Union itself is colored by these factors. In the Baltic provinces, which were formerly independent but which Russia annexed in 1940, the human rights movement has been able to gain a wider base of support because of nationalist sentiment. This is particularly true in Lithuania, where the Catholic Church enjoys an influence in some degree analogous to that of Poland...
With 90 per cent of Poles practising Catholics (more young people are going into the priesthood than ever before, and the vitality of religion is underlined by huge outdoor folk Masses and an incredible number of new church buildings), the Church's traditional role as a focus for national sentiment is being linked with that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime...
...human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed up by hard-headed knowledge of local situations--how far economic pressures can be applied to wean regimes from Moscow, when and where nationalist sentiment can aid the dissidents, when to speak out, when to work behind the scenes...