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True, the damage would have been more immediate if Roe v. Wade had been overturned, the outcome Bush nominally seeks. That would have outraged pro- choice voters, many of whom supported Bush in 1988 despite his desire to outlaw abortion in most cases. The ardent pro-life faction, an important part of Bush's core constituency, is also disgruntled. It complains that a court controlled by Reagan-Bush appointees has not done away with Roe. Caught between the two groups, Bush had to speak softly. Yes, he approved that part of the court's ruling that allows states to impose...
Robb, 46, is the avuncular public face of a fringe white-supremacist movement whose virulence is growing. His Klan faction, which boasts at least 1,000 active members, is one of the largest white racist groups in the nation. According to professional Klan watchers, he has tapped into a growing market for bigotry. Reported hate crimes, from painting swastikas on synagogues to racially motivated murders, have steadily risen over the past four years; cross burnings alone doubled in 1991. Klanwatch, a monitoring group based in Montgomery, estimates that there are now 346 groups, up from...
...from breaking asunder over such differences. With no potential successor having anywhere near his influence, Arafat's death would almost certainly bring disunity. Among those mentioned as possible heirs is Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s de facto foreign minister. Kaddoumi, one of the founders of the mainstream Fatah faction, considered a hard-liner, has international stature, but he is unpopular among many of his P.L.O. colleagues, in part because of his arrogant demeanor...
...lifers' contention that use of such tissue increases the number of abortions. Bush promises a veto, which will almost certainly stick. His bona fides with his party's far-right wing will be strengthened, but so will the argument that he is a prisoner of a minority faction...
...October, based on a book written in late cold war days, Ryan was obliged to prevent nothing less than the accidental outbreak of nuclear holocaust. In Patriot Games his problem is less portentous, more personal: he faces a small rogue faction of the Irish Republican Army -- a bad lot, to be sure, but not exactly a threat to Civilization As We Know...