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...Blacks, Jews and other urban ethnic groups had been reliably Republican before the Depression; Roosevelt's appeal and his social programs made them solidly Democratic. Unable to prevent F.D.R. from being elected to four terms, the Republicans seemed to be retired into permanent opposition. The G.O.P. split into two groups???liberal internationalists and conservative isolationists, a division that hindered a recovery at the polls. The party did not regain the presidency until
...many denominations, small groups???usually a coalition of liberals, gays, women and youths?are pressing for full acceptance of gays. Says the Rev. Tom Oddo, national chaplain to Dignity, an organization of Catholic gays and their sympathizers: "Listening to these people and feeling the pain of their lives, you can't help but be concerned. They have been hit with all kinds of guilt that they are condemned by God." Dignity plans to present its views at the November meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. When the United Methodist Church's Council on Youth Ministries announced a drive...
...accords were signed, to the effect that the U.S. would, in his words, "immediately and vigorously supply South Viet Nam" in the event of a full-scale Communist offensive. Tears flowing down his cheeks, Thieu then announced: "I depart today. I ask my countrymen?the armed forces and religious groups???to forgive me my past mistakes I made while in power. The country and I will be grateful to you. I am very undeserving. I am resigning, but I am not deserting...
...court will be less venturesome in staking out new positions," contends Kurland's Chicago colleague, Phil Neal. As a result, new constitutional claims by a variety of special-interest groups???tenants, ecologists, the poor, welfare recipients, consumers?are not likely to be warmly received. A similar desire to stay out of new constitutional waters may well doom such pending contentions as the claim that the death penalty is cruel and inhuman punishment, thus a violation of the Eighth Amendment...
...Elliot Richardson. Things seem to her to have changed a lot since the last Republican Administration (Richardson was an Assistant Secretary of HEW under Eisenhower). "The town seems a lot more open," she says. "You see a broader mix of people at parties?people from different economic and social groups???and a greater tendency to mix Government and media people with the diplomatic corps. The town is more free-flowing...