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Moody Inaction. Brandt also faces a potentially powerful backlash from the faltering West German economy, once the miracle of Europe. The inflation rate has reached 8% yearly, which by conservative German standards is frightening. Unemployment has risen from 331,800 last November to 485,000 in December. The automobile and chemical industries are in their worst decline since the recession...
...Your Oct. 15 account of what you call "Episcopalian Backlash" at the 64th General Convention of the Episcopal Church troubles me. Your reportage of the facts is not untrue, but your interpretation of those facts seems perverse. Because, as you saw it, "the Episcopalians abruptly applied the brakes to innovation" at Louisville, you assume that this is a lapse into conservatism. Many of us regard it as a rise to responsibility...
...word backlash in your headline is inaccurate and snide...
Price and Orren agreed that the low voter turnout in the cities indicated a lack of confidence in government among the people. Both said they saw no indications of backlash against the Republican Party in these local elections...
Despite the fact that Democrats out-number Republicans by three to one in Maryland, Agnew easily beat Mahoney in that election. But the Ted Agnew who captured the governorship of Maryland on a wave of backlash against segregation was a far cry from the Spiro Agnew who would emerge on the national scene two years later to accept the vice presidential nomination from Richard Nixon...