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...addition to the anti-apartheid leaders, a powerful right-wing faction is putting political pressure on the president. Seeing themselves as the rightful owners of South Africa, white traditionalists point to Black violence and argue that the majority cannot be trusted with equal political rights...
Wilder never faced a serious challenge for the gubernatorial nomination once he pressured State Attorney General Mary Sue Terry to defer her own ambitions until 1993. There was grumbling in the Robb faction of the state party, but once again, no one wanted to risk an open schism by trying to deprive Wilder of his moment on the mountaintop. There was no chance of a racially divisive primary, since Virginia Democrats, unlike those in other Southern states, nominate by convention. In a sense, Wilder was the beneficiary of old- fashioned back-room politics, just as Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates...
...stinging criticisms by stalwart right-wingers like Jesse Helms of his handling of the Panamanian coup attempt were a bitter reminder of an old political truth: he has never been a favorite of Republican conservatives. As President, Bush might have been expected to ignore the demands of a faction that has been sniping at him for years; instead, he has wooed the right, doing the minimum, and sometimes more, to keep it happy. Says Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst with Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation: "He's like the constant suitor. He's always there with...
...past decade, tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops have been in Cambodia helping the Phnom Penh government battle a coalition of guerrilla groups whose strongest faction is the Khmer Rouge...
...School was as disturbing as the Putnam appointment was commendable. Not only does Clark have little practical experience in fundraising, an essential skill as the school embarks on a massive capital drive in the coming years, but he also has been a vocal opponent of the radical faction of the Law faculty...