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...skilled commando brigade. They understood the caucus system well and adroitly concentrated on group voting. Robertson organizers even rented buses to deliver their supporters to meetings en masse. Throughout the South and in such states as Michigan and Minnesota, Robertson has built up similarly efficient organizations full of fervent campaigners...
Resentment of black advancement in athletics is especially fervent because sport epitomizes the ideal of male perfection. Many white men find it disturbing that a black might best fulfill that ideal (and might collect the accompanying glamour and money). Thus, after Jack Johnson captured the heavyweight championship in 1908, the urgent search began for a "great white hope" to reclaim the crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks...
...handedly." On the other hand, in Vienna last week, three neo-Nazis interrupted a nationally televised ceremony honoring Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal with repeated shouts of "Murderer!" When the program's host asked the audience to show its disapproval by giving Wiesenthal a standing ovation, the listeners responded with fervent applause...
...certainly a quick way for the President to steal the spotlight from the expatriate rebel leaders who returned to El Salvador. Three days before Duarte's announcement, Ruben Zamora Rivas, vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, returned from exile in Nicaragua to be greeted by a small but fervent group of supporters. Mocking Duarte's embrace of the American flag during his last trip to Washington, Zamora kissed the flag of El Salvador when he arrived. "This is all the amnesty I will need," he declared...
...support the government are suspect. Yet there is growing evidence that the revolution is down to the hard core of its constituency and still losing friends. "The Sandinistas came to power with the support of 80% to 90% of the population," says a Nicaraguan intellectual who was once a fervent believer. "Now they would have to scrape to come up with 40%." The draft and 1500% inflation are eroding the bedrock of support in poor neighborhoods like Villa Cuba. "They have taken all our rights, even the right to toilet paper," says a 20-year-old draft dodger, referring...