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...Spanish election was closely watched in other international capitals, particularly since it came in the wake of Socialist victories in France, Greece and Sweden and seemed to some observers to suggest a leftward swing in Western European politics. Most analysts, however, saw it as part of a mixed trend in which widespread economic problems tended to work against incumbent governments (see following story...
...Northern Europe, where Social Democrats have dominated politics for almost as long as the center-right parties have in Southern Europe, voters have been seeking alternatives. A minority of environmentalists and others opposed to nuclear power and the deployment in Europe of U.S. medium-range nuclear weapons have drifted leftward. A greater number have moved to the right in protest against the ever increasing tax burden needed to maintain extensive welfare programs in stagnant economies. In September, Denmark got its first conservative Prime Minister in 81 years, Poul Schlüter, who immediately pushed through an austerity program. Belgium...
Though the liberal wing of the U.S. Catholic Church has repeatedly sought to take the U.S. Catholic hierarchy leftward into the new morality, this is the first time that a church panel within any U.S. diocese has gone so far as to accept homosexual behavior. Not surprisingly, many centrist and conservative Catholics in the archdiocese were alarmed not only by the contents of the report but by the fact that it was issued at all. Said Conservative Jesuit Joseph Fessio, director of the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco: "If the Catholic Church has a view...
...early years, Marglin had colleagues on the faculty who also experienced the leftward drift of the late '60s, although he alone had tenure. In the year 1969-1970, five other young professors gave the Economics Department a solid core of radical though. It appeared, very briefly, as if Harvard might become the vanguard in the emerging field of radical economics...
...Exchequer in postwar Labor governments, and had gone on to four years of distinguished duty as president of the Brussels-based European Commission, the executive arm of the ten-nation European Community. But from his post in Brussels he gradually became disenchanted with Labor's inexorable leftward drift. In 1979 he put forward the heretical proposition that Britain needed a new party of the center, occupying the middle ground between Labor and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's right-leaning Conservative government. Home again last year, he joined other like-minded Laborites, including former Foreign Secretary David Owen...