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...three weeks before when Harold Wilson resigned. After 13 years of tutelage by Wilson, master of the cautious choice, most of the voting Labor M.P.s had opted for a few more years of pragmatic caution under Callaghan rather than the financial strains for battered Britain of a more pronounced leftward turn under Foot...
Your reference to the late Professor Leo Strauss's "vision of the general leftward trend of world politics" [Feb. 2] is truly unfortunate. The choice of the word vision suggests that he looked forward with favor to the triumph of the left. Exactly the opposite was the case, as everyone familiar with his teaching and his many books knows well...
...university's impact has been felt in a number of ways. During the Nixon Administration, the President and his top economic advisers embraced the monetarist theories of conservative Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Chicago Political Scientist Leo Strauss impressed several generations of students with his vision of the general leftward trend of world politics. One of these students was Robert Goldwin, who now serves as President Ford's resident intellectual...
...been active in politics from the age of 14, when he joined a Moroccan independence movement. For a time he was a tutor to Hassan, then the country's Crown Prince. After Morocco gained its independence, Ben Barka's friendship with Hassan turned sour as he moved leftward in his politics and eventually headed Morocco's political opposition. In 1963, he was elected president of the National Consultative Assembly. Ben Barka later fled into exile in Algeria, and was condemned to death in absentia, allegedly for taking part in a plot against Hassan's life...
...Harris' Senate term was drawing to a close in 1971, it was apparent that Oklahomans were not happy with his leftward drift; he seemed headed for probable defeat. So rather than run for the Senate again, he astonished his constituents by declaring for the presidency. One stalwart financial backer, New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen, kept his campaign alive for six weeks. When it seemed hopeless, Harris withdrew...