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...heard the old saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat," he says. "I try in my letters to give people lots of options." But one political movement Ratliff rejects absolutely is the currently resurgent far right, especially the fundamentalist Christian "Moral Majority" faction. "I'm afraid I'm not a very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff is one adversary that knows his Scripture: "To right wing evangelicals, Jesus says, 'You call me Lord...
Wang, born in 1949 of a military family, is the same age as the People's Republic. As a teen-age Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution, he belonged to a rebel faction in his home town of Tianjin. There he once helped loot and burn a Roman Catholic church. Chastened by those outbursts, he has become a sculptor whose brooding images, carved from blocks of wood bought at a local firewood shop, show the evils of political fanaticism. "When I was a Red Guard," Wang says, pointing to his work, "I would have smashed all of this...
...nation can also anticipate that in a Reagan presidency the Moral Majority faction will play a role in high level policy making. "I think he's promised it to them and he owes it to them," she says...
...Reagan's advisers, Robert Tucker, a foreign policy specialist at Johns Hopkins University, sketched in Commentary in 1975 a hypothetical U.S. strategy for seizing the Arab oilfields. On the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iran's leaders are divided. President Abolhassan Banisadr's faction considers Carter preferable to Reagan, but Banisadr's clerical rivals contend that "both are tools of imperialism...
DIED. Luigi Longo, 80, secretary general of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972 and a leader of the hardline, Moscow-trained faction of Italian Communism; of a heart attack; near Rome. The son of peasants, Longo won a Bronze Star from the U.S. for his activities with the Italian underground during World...