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...primary dates. They have long felt that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February give the Snow Belt an inordinate voice in picking the party's nominee. A Southern primary, they hope, will amplify their region's voice and enhance prospects that the Democrats will nominate a centrist, someone who can win back significant Southern real estate and thereby shatter what has become the modern G.O.P. base of presidential politics: most of the old Confederacy as well as much of the West. With the Democratic Party groping through an identity crisis in the wake of two landslide losses...
...year after its founding, the new-look Democratic Leadership Council has found plenty of support for its call for a more conservative Democratic Party --without resorting to want ads. Organized by young, centrist Governors and Congressmen, many from the South and West, after Walter Mondale's rout in the 1984 presidential election, the D.L.C. set out to do three things: shift the party away from standard-brand liberalism, stem defections to the G.O.P., and create a climate for a moderate or conservative Democrat to succeed Ronald Reagan as President. What a difference a year makes. Notes Virginia ex- Governor Charles...
...tough rhetoric coming from the Administration, and, in particular, the implication that opponents are dupes of Moscow, left many lawmakers steaming. "They are trying to make this the ultimate test of conservative patriotism," said Kansas Congressman Jim Slattery, a centrist Democrat. "The tactics have backfired," said another moderate Democrat, Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma. "The rhetoric, the harshness, are working against them." In a meeting with Shultz last week, these Congressmen strongly objected to what they called "red baiting." The Secretary insisted that the Administration was not questioning their patriotism...
...showdown. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, last week quietly proposed to the White House that some compromise plan on contra aid be sought before any floor vote. He was turned down. Nevertheless, there was some feeling on the Hill that a number of centrist House Democrats could still be swayed. "Today, we'd win," said one Democrat. "In two weeks, Reagan may pick off just enough votes...
...N.P.A.'s best recruiter. Her hope is to eradicate the poverty and discontent on which the Communists build to promote their cause. "The N.P.A. sees that people are not willing to embrace any kind of repressive regime, whether from the left or the right," says Enrile. "Filipinos want a centrist, liberal, democratic person in government...