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...attitudes toward the Soviet Union, arms control, Central America and the European allies, among others. The need to compromise was symbolized by the resort to bipartisan commissions (the Scowcroft panel on the MX missile, the Kissinger group on Central America) that did extremely useful work and produced sound, generally centrist recommendations, which by no reasonable standard could be described as weak. Despite recent, markedly pacific gestures from the Administration, it remains to be seen whether, in the second term, such centrist policies will prevail or whether the right-wing "true believers" will succeed in reasserting the ideological superhard line...
...President wants to leave a legacy of better relations with the Soviets, as well as gain a serious chance of another Republican victory in 1988, everything indicates that he must follow more or less centrist policies. The best hope for the Democrats would be a Republican candidate and a set of policies to revive the "warmonger" fear of the earlier Reagan days. Thus, for political reasons as well as for idealistic ones, Reagan has every incentive to reach out to the Democrats in search of consensus...
Hunt is quick to challenge the Helms-Reagan association, pointing out that Helms has often opposed the President on many of the administration's most centrist policies...
...when MacFarquhar signed on in 1979 with the Social Democrats, a centrist spin-off group, he took quite a political risk. But he says he had to. "The Labour Party had a great tradition of reform in Britain, and now they're destroying themselves.... They're going very far to the left in manner which the British people, who are very sensible and moderate, will not tolerate...
...friends. This year, however, with Morocco's standard of living on the wane and social unrest on the rise, Hassan needed to retain control while giving his critics enough freedom to keep them quiet. True to form, a majority of 108 seats was won by three look-alike centrist parties that are unswervingly devoted to the King and his pro-Western line. At the same time, however, the opposition Socialist Party went from 16 seats to 34 seats...