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...revolutionary, he repeatedly with student activists not to take up violence as a tactic of protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets on March 14, 1980, Dennis Sweeney--denounced him as a reactionary trying to stem the leftward surges of the American student community. But Lowenstein could not support anyone who wanted to overthrow the established political system. Arthur Schlesinger '38 writes: He was sure that the energy released in the turbulence of the 1960s could be turned from destructive to constructive uses. A man of reason, he abhorred...
...find out what their supporters want, let alone having to deal with questions like how they will vote on unemployment programs." If the Greens fail to win 5% of the vote, their future as a political force will depend on whether Vogel's Social Democrats maintain their leftward drift. In short, the Greens will disturb the West German political scene as long as there is room on the left for a new generation of skeptical citizens with a dim sense of the past and a hazy vision of the future. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary...
Screaming is useful for the Sandinistas in another way. At a time when important sectors of Nicaraguan society have become alienated by the leftward drift of the regime, the constant evocation of a threat from the U.S. and the counterrevolutionaries, known as contras, has become an important domestic political weapon. Moreover, the strategy seems to work. For all their highly vocal insecurities, Nicaragua's rulers are more securely entrenched at home than ever...
...activists of the right have given up fighting Baker and instead are now criticizing Ronald Reagan directly. "The leftward drift has turned into a stampede," says Viguerie about the President and his policies. Baker is unconcerned about the flak from the right. He comments: "I'm feeling pretty good right...
...well as a moral dimension. I don't deny that, but that doesn't mean we're not permitted to talk about them. But our perspective must always be from the moral or ethical dimension. I reject out of hand that we have taken a leftward swing. What we are trying to do is focus on the teaching of the Gospel as we understand it, and to apply that teaching to the various social issues of the day. Our central theme is our respect for God's gift of life, our insistence that the human person...