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Responding to the backlash he received from his earlier comments regarding the "immorality" of a television show which he had admittedly never watched, Quayle searched for the most "authentic" representations of this particular so-called "defect" in the nations's family values--single mothers. And just as African-Americans in this country have been always coded as the most "primitive" and the most "free" (among many other things), in today's discussions of "family values," African-American are also coded as the most "deviant...
Isaacson attributes the collapse of detente and the beginning of a decade of arms buildup to the political backlash that occurred because of Kissinger's indifference to human rights and obsessive secretiveness, but he also puts considerable blame on Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson and his aide Richard Perle, who later joined the Reagan Administration. In 1974 Jackson and Perle, who were opposed to detente, held the treaty granting the Soviet Union most-favored nation trading status hostage to Soviet agreement to allow expanded Jewish emigration. The Soviets retaliated by shutting off emigration and also, as Isaacson argues, by giving...
Across the East bloc, diehards are rebelling against the rigors of converting state-run economies to free markets. In Czechoslovakia that backlash is helping to break the country in half. In Poland economic backsliding has aggravated, and been aggravated by, a democracy run riot. Parliament is splintered into 29 political groupings, and a succession of revolving-door governments -- three Prime Ministers in less than a year -- have been unable to get any firm grip on the floundering economy...
...even in middle Europe, a backlash is causing trouble. In Czechoslovakia, Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus is pursuing a rapid move to free markets -- he pioneered the voucher scheme for privatizing state industry that Russia now proposes to copy -- at the price of agreeing to a date of Jan. 1 for splitting the nation into separate Czech and Slovak republics. Slovak insistence on breaking up the union is fueled partly by ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such...
Although the anti-incumbency backlash was not felt in Cambridge, there was enough elsewhere to bounce U.S. Representative Chester Atkins. The Concord representative, who bounced 126 checks in the House bank, lost to Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Meehan...