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On secondary matters the President will sometimes accept the consensus even if it goes against his grain. A prime example is the agenda of social issues?particularly banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools?that are all-important to his New Right followers. Reagan believes in...
* Harris Blake, who rapped his opponent again and again for his liberal stances on abortion, school prayer, and forced busing:
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN and the Republican sweep of 1980 apparently boosted Sen Jesse Helms (R-N-C.) to an unusual position of power on Capitol Hill. An uncompromising far-right polemicist, Helms was given an unanticipated opportunity to peddle his extreme views on abortion, school prayer, and busing...
The national media have eagerly fed upon this reputation, providing Helms with the awed coverage that inflates a politician's ego and image. But the fearsome scion of the New Right has actually proved a far less effective legislator than is commonly assumed. More prudent colleagues from both sides of...
Another factor contributing to America's new mood is the increasingly-publicized wastefulness of the military industry. Corporations that make missiles, planes, submarines and other weapons have historically used tax dollars to finance budget-busing cost overruns and outright fraus. More important, they have been allowed to do so by...