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Leery of the backlash against Nakasone's tax proposal, provincial L.D.P. politicians had gone so far as to ask the Prime Minister to stay away from the campaign hustings. Indeed, Nakasone has done little to help his dismal approval rating, which has plummeted from 39% to 24% in the past four months. Last week he rammed his new budget, overdue by two months, through a parliamentary committee. In a three-minute session marred by shoving and shouting, L.D.P. Budget Chairman Shigetani Sunada declared the measure passed and adjourned the committee. The national daily Asahi Shimbun called the incident a "rash...
Governments in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in particular could face a pacifist backlash if they blocked a Soviet-American agreement to get rid of shorter-range missiles. At present the Soviets have about 130 shorter-range weapons -- some 50 in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the rest in the western U.S.S.R. The U.S. has none at all; it controls the warheads for 72 shorter- range Pershing 1As in West Germany, but these are nonetheless considered German missiles, not subject to a U.S.-Soviet agreement. Thus if Gorbachev's latest proposal is rejected, the numbers of U.S. and Soviet shorter-range...
Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
American history in the past 100 years has arranged itself in the cycles with an odd neatness. A period of economic depression, war, social change and activism has generally been followed by a spasm of reactionary backlash, followed by a time of consolidation, relative calm and prosperity...
...next cycle turned on the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II, followed by the backlash of McCarthyism and the era of relative calm and prosperity during the 1950s and early '60s. Then the real '60s: turbulence, crisis, war, the rhetoric of revolution...