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Life has been like that for Terry Anderson ever since March 16, 1985, when the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press was kidnaped in West Beirut. The men who grabbed him, members of the Shi'ite Muslim fundamentalist group called Hizballah, were intent on swapping Western hostages for 17 comrades imprisoned in Kuwait for a terrorist spree. Four long years later, Anderson is still held hostage. From accounts by his former fellow captives, TIME has pieced together a glimpse of the life...
...electoral majority that Republicans enjoyed in the last three presidential races rests on an unstable alliance between two antagonistic groups. The first, the fundamentalist Right, is a vocal minority that gets much recognition, but has little substantive power. The second is a group I call MBA Republicans--young, educated, economically conservative voters who are uncomfortable with the New Right's social agenda...
Republicans have been able to hold this untenable alliance together by paying lip-service to the social agenda of the Right without taking any serious action on it. MBA Republicans don't care for the fundamentalist Right, but they still see no reason to fear them...
Overturning Roe would change all that. Up until now, the fundamentalist Right has resembled Oscar Wilde's description of George Bernard Shaw: they have no enemies in the Republican party, but they're disliked intensely by all of their friends. If MBA Republicans see that the party is actually carrying out the Right's social agenda, they will defect en masse...
...enough simply to stress the moral objections to abortion or to call for its end, a lesson which the knownothing, think-nothing, care-nothing fundamentalist opponents of abortion have failed to learn. For opponents to make a viable case against abortion, we must also address the larger social problems which are leading women to seek this lamentable option in the first place. If abortion can be termed an evil--indeed a "necessary evil" by its supporters--it is time to make it an unnecessary...