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Since then, no one has doubted that Regan speaks with authority. Last week he was introduced at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lunch as "the most effective spokesman for this Administration." Naturally, there were good reasons for the Secretary's warm reception before that bastion of capitalist influence. In response to the complaints of corporate leaders, the White House had only a few days earlier restored several cuts in business taxes that had been shaved from the package the week before. Particularly satisfying to the business leaders was a revised depreciation schedule that generously increases write-offs...
...opposition Progressive Federal Party, a bastion of South Africa's English-speaking white minority, attracted enough support at the polls from liberal Afrikaners to increase its parliamentary strength by nine, to 26. On the right, the ultraconservative Herstigte Nasionale Party (H.N.P.) drew 191,249 votes, compared with only 34,159 in the 1977 election. Reason: growing numbers of the Afrikaner working class fear that Botha's reform measures will prepare the way for black majority rule. Declares H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais: "Botha is stimulating racial frictions by creating expectations. It implants the idea that the existing order...
Attempting to sensitize themselves to the plight of minority students at what has traditionally been a bastion of white, male values, many non-minority students joined in the fight against racism, blatant and institutionalized. "It's not just the BSA that's being attacked--it's all of us," one white student who participated in the fall rally against racism said, adding, "This isn't just a Black issue--it's a human issue...
West Berlin's elections were held two years early because a scandal over municipal building contracts forced the resignation of S.P.D. Mayor Dietrich Stobbe last January. To halt the decline of the S.P.D. in its onetime bastion, Schmidt had sent his federal justice minister, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, to take over as mayor and prepare for new elections. A popular former mayor of Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll...
...campaign trail, Begin pressed home his vision of Eretz Israel, the "land of Israel" with its extended biblical boundaries, as a necessary bastion of strength in a hostile world. As he had in 1977, Begin, an Ashkenazi originally from Poland, was skillfully using his hawkish posture to retain the support of lower-income Sephardi Jewish refugees from Arab lands who shared his distrust of Arabs. Two weeks ago, at a festival in Jerusalem's Sacher Park attended by some 50,000 North African Jews, Begin so charmed his audience that bodyguards had to protect the frail candidate from...