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Barring a major stumble, though, Robertson promises to emerge with durable political influence. For the moment, he is pointedly keeping the Religious Right at arm's length to broaden his appeal, and in talks refers to his previous vocation as "businessman," not "evangelist." He has quit the Southern Baptist clergy and ceded control of his Christian Broadcasting Network to Son Timothy. But his organization of volunteers and financial supporters draws heavily upon the Christian Right and is one of the most substantial political infrastructures ever built in the U.S. on a religious base. It should carry Robertson and his smoothly...
...attempt to broaden his political appeal the Rev. Jesse Jackson this year is stressing questions of "economic violence" as oppossed to the issues of "racial violence" he emphasized when he last sought the Democratic presidential nomination...
...couching this issue--which has been of interest mostly to academics--in terms of the economy and national security, the report is likely to broaden the base of opposition to the Administration's information policies, say university officials. And by framing their argument in these politically pressing terms, Shattuck and Spence provide a document that may very well persuade congressmen to rescind the Administration's policy changes...
...result, Botha has come under little pressure to broaden the modest reforms that he began in 1985. Within the past three weeks, Botha has unveiled the last two such measures on his list: an amendment that would give the country's strictly segregated communities the local option of admitting residents of more than one race, and a plan to form a multiracial National Council to consult on the outline of a new constitution. Both proposals have been rejected as tokenism by black antiapartheid groups...
Where Davidson's talent lies in the succinctly evocative, Kletzsch grants himself a freer hand over his composition, allowing the generous repetition of themes to broaden his canvas. Sometimes, as in moments during the first movement, 'moderato cantabile', the repetition tends to long-windedness; a series of triplet structures, for example, seem a bit too obvious in their last few recapitulations (especially after the piece's lovely opening, reminiscent of a Bach sarabande...