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...news of that exchange circulated, the conservative faithful in Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business...
Reagan's great trick in 1980 was to unite the three main sects of "wingers": the better-dead-than-Red faction, whose main concern was fighting communism; the religious right, interested in moral issues such as abortion; and fiscal rebels for whom the great demons were high taxes and government regulation. Bush's cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor...
Weber belongs to the faction that has been pressing Bush to promote a bolder economic-growth program. After fencing over nuances with White House agents supervising the platform, the Weber group won a few concessions. One called for the "ultimate" repeal of the tax increases imposed in the 1990 deficit- reduction deal between Bush and Capitol Hill. That Bush went along with the compromise still rankles many conservatives, though others feel that the deficit would be even worse without it. Weber, who is quitting Congress, mourns the loss of fervor for Reaganomics. "It's discouraging," he says, "how little supply...
What sparked the political uproar in Europe and the U.S. last week were emotional new charges that each faction in Bosnia is running a network of internment camps where beatings, torture, starvation and even murder are commonplace. International observers have been scrambling to investigate the claims, most of which come from interested parties, but inspectors have largely been kept out of the places they most want to see. Until they get unhampered access, sorting out reality from propaganda will be impossible...
Early in the campaign, Clinton did not plan to stress abortion or other emotional issues such as school prayer. He wanted to avoid the appearance of catering to "special interests," including feminists. But now Clinton must scrape for every faction, large or small. As the only one of the three candidates favoring the pending bill and promising to appoint pro-choice judges to the Supreme Court, Clinton hopes to stand apart from his rivals...