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Some homosexual leaders are afraid that the excesses of the national anti-Anita campaign may cause a public backlash against the gay rights movement, and claim that this is exactly what she is seeking. "She's willingly making herself a stalking horse for the ultra-right and trying to set up homosexuals as scapegoats," contends Howard Wallace, a founder of the Coalition for Human Rights. Adds Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, "Gays have traditionally been the victims, not the perpetrators, of violence...
Tall, thin, bearded Principal Edwin Barker is popular with students and community alike. "He does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high...
Instead of displaying caution amid the obvious backlash against its past influence, the maritime industry engaged in some of its most blatant lobbying efforts. Just six weeks before the House committee approved the bill in August, a fund-raising cocktail party for Chairman Murphy in Washington garnered $9,950 from maritime sources for his 1978 campaign. "That doesn't mean I'm bought," snapped Murphy angrily after Common Cause broke the news. But the fact that Congressmen had to deny they were selling votes showed how counterproductive the lobbying effort had become...
...Backlash against the plan for illegal immigrants...
...want the Kremlin to think the U.S. would settle for less than a substantial, comprehensive arms limitation deal. "Our view," he cautioned, "is that a SALT agreement which just reflects the lowest common denominator that can be agreed upon will only create an illusion of progress and, eventually, a backlash against the entire arms control process." Answering Moscow's complaints about his determination to develop the cruise missile, he reiterated that the U.S. would certainly limit its strategic weapons buildup if the Soviets did the same. But if Moscow persists in holding out against a SALT pact, he warned...