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...ultimate survival of the Sandinista regime depends on its ability to avoid a political rift between the leftists and the private sector. One potential crisis flared up last April following the abrupt resignations of two moderate junta members. Their departure was widely seen as a sign of an imminent leftward shift in the national leadership. But the government restored confidence by appointing two moderate replacements...
...probably inevitable in the presidential campaign, if only because it echoes last year's refrains of "Who lost Iran?" and "Who lost Nicaragua?" The temptation to blame Jimmy Carter is understandable-and, for his critics, irresistible. After all, even though his predecessors had unwittingly contributed to the leftward drift of the Kabul government, it was during Carter's watch-and partly because of his misjudgments-that Afghanistan finally slipped from its traditional neutrality into the Soviet orbit...
...father was born to a radical heritage and not expected to stray. After writing several appreciative pieces about avant-garde writers, he took command of Commentary in 1960 and steered it leftward...
...underwent a sharper, and probably more unusual, transformation. After growing up in a conservative Long Island town. Bernard came to Harvard believing, he says, "that we should bomb the hell out of the Vietnamese." Within a few months, he found himself joining anti-war demonstrations--the beginning of a leftward course that, he says, has continued ever since. While a graduate student in physics here, Bernard worked during the 1976 presidential primaries for the left-populist campaign of former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris. Most Massachusetts voters, however, supported Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), and then Gov. George C. Wallace...
...perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...