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...only hope for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle lies in defusing Hamas' power. For this reason, a growing number of Israeli politicians, including a significant faction within Rabin's Cabinet, now advocate recognizing and speaking directly with the P.L.O. leadership. Beyond that, nationalists like Ghassan Khatib believe that Israel must offer Palestinians concrete proof that negotiations can pay off. "If there is progress in the peace talks, then the P.L.O. will be in a position to absorb Hamas," he says. "Otherwise it will be the other way around...
Despite the common ground undergraduate Republicans share with the new Majority Coalition, many in the Harvard GOP group support another faction of Republicans, led by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp...
...party's energy -- in issues that voters viewed as peripheral. Bush captured two-thirds of those who considered "family values" critical, but only 15% of the electorate fell into that category. Similarly, the G.O.P. sought to hold its conservative base by giving a large megaphone to its antiabortion faction. Bush led among those who think that abortion should be illegal under all or most circumstances, but that group made up only one- third of the electorate. Clinton captured the larger pro-choice faction...
Progressive Conservatives. This faction admires the hard right's faith in values but has little use for its protectionist leanings on economics and trade. The progressives also feel that where the free market fails, government should offer disadvantaged Americans a hand with jobs, education and health care -- as long as that aid takes the form of antibureaucratic incentives like tax breaks and vouchers. Their leading apostle is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, who has spent the past four years trying to reach out to African Americans and other minorities with sermons about enterprise zones, ownership and management...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...