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...Association of Evangelicals loved it, and gave Reagan a thunderous ovation, to strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." In the secular realm, less fervently religious elements didn't quite seem to know how to digest the rhetoric, so they ended up dismissing it. The editorial page of the New York Times and House Speaker Tip O'Neill Jr. both softly chided the President, while confidently predicting a return of the same politics of compromise. A Reagan staffer remark typified the general lack of serious concern about the speech: "What? That's just rhetoric...
Civil rights leaders contend that the latter provision is discriminatory because Blacks generally score lower on such standardized tests than whites. The Southern Digest, February...
Phillips, along with Richard Viguerie, publisher of the Conservative Digest, and a few other right-wingers have been hinting that they will oppose Reagan's reelection. But if last week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington was any guide, they may be leading a rebellion that has few followers. The President, in a speech Friday to the 1,400 participants, wowed his philosophical comrades: they applauded 40 times in 30 minutes. According to an earlier survey of the assembled activists, 75% believe that Reagan is doing a "good" or "excellent" job. Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma...
...much of what Ford revealed was new. Nonetheless, contended Navasky, "What we did was a journalistic coup, and perfectly legal." Last week in Manhattan, however, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen, ruling on a suit brought by Ford's publishers, Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association, concluded that the Nation had violated federal copyright law. Said Owen: "The Nation took what was essentially the heart of the book...
...didn't like the Democratic alternative either, and editorially suggested that the times are so tough a little bipartisanship is called for. On the far right the reaction to Reagan was anger at betrayal. John D. Lofton Jr. couldn t wait to express himself in the Conservative Digest, the magazine he once edited, but got it off his chest in the Washington Times, the Moonies' new newspaper. He called Reagan a "political 'Tootsie' . . . wearing clothes which quite frankly (at least when he was a candidate) I was unaware were in his wardrobe. And the maddening thing...