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...Instead, the proposals were overwhelmingly rejected, and the military eventually agreed to schedule last week's elections-subject to certain conditions. Two leading politicians were barred from running. One was Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, 66, leader of the Blanco Party, a traditionally center-right organization that has been moving leftward; jailed upon returning last June from eleven years of exile, he was freed after last week's election. The other was Liber Seregni, 67, a former army general who heads the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), a coalition of five leftist parties. When the votes were tallied, the Colorados...
...included nationalizing the commercial banks and cutting off the government's $6 million annual subsidies to a variety of maharajahs and princelings. When conservative opponents rallied around her chief rival, Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai, she dismissed him from her Cabinet. When the party chiefs, angered by her leftward turn, expelled her for "grave acts of undiscipline," she went to the Parliament and won a vote of confidence. When she called a surprise election in 1971, she triumphantly captured more than two-thirds of the seats. And when civil war broke out between the two regions of neighboring Pakistan...
Though Richardson, in a recent interview, rejected the label "liberal Republican," he has made it clear that he feels the party must move leftward if it is to gain a Senate seat...
...Democrats necessarily see this in their favor? Or should both parties realize that women are now exerting an entirely new form of political strength, a form which might batter a male Democratic President just as harshly as a Republican, and which might move the entire political spectrum bodily leftward? If so, then a true feminist revolution may have started in 1980, when women voted significantly different from men for the first time. Perhaps the real gap may be found in other numbers--only 24 women in Congress; three Cabinet secretaries; 8.7 percent of the nation's mayors; 13.3 percent...
...unlikely. When UNESCO was founded in 1945, the agency's goals were high-minded enough: fostering literacy and education, preserving mankind's cultural heritage, promoting the exchange of scientific ideas. But as Third World nations became a more potent force in the U.N., the organization took a leftward turn. The first real scuffle came in 1974, when UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from a regional working group because it allegedly altered "the historical features of Jerusalem" during archaeological excavations and "brainwashed" Arabs in the occupied territories. Congress promptly suspended UNESCO's appropriations, which forced the agency...