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...Accordingly, the early lineup of Republican presidential contenders is already bidding for the approval of the Christian right. Jack Kemp has long been a favorite of theirs. Dick Cheney was keynote speaker at the Virginia convention. Dan Quayle's memoir is peppered with references to his religious faith and was co-published by Zondervan, a Christian imprint. And the power of the religious right was certified two weeks ago by Bob Dole, who abruptly endorsed Ollie North's Senate bid after toying publicly with the idea of supporting the independent candidacy of moderate J. Marshall Coleman...
...Quayle claims vindication. No, he hasn't discovered that potato really has an e after all. But in his just-published memoir, Standing Firm, he does insist that the world has come his way on the question of family values and Murphy Brown. Even Bill Clinton, Quayle observes, has said "there were a lot of very good things" in Quayle's famous speech on the subject...
Four weeks ago, we printed an excerpt from Special Tasks, the memoir of a Soviet spymaster published by Little, Brown. In it the principal author, Pavel Sudoplatov, charged that prominent scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, had knowingly made atomic secrets available to Soviet agents. Since publication of the book, many nuclear physicists and historians have raised serious questions about Sudoplatov's account. Our story on the controversy begins on page...
...critic, once wisecracked, "Sure we got our troubles, but if white folks could be black for just one Saturday night, they wouldn't never want to be white folks no more." Henry Louis Gates Jr. does not go nearly that far in Colored People (Knopf; 216 pages; $22), his memoir of growing up in a West Virginia mill town during the 1950s and '60s. But his beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation provides one explanation of why few African Americans, even if they had the power to change, would choose...
With his nicely spelled memoir Standing Firm, DAN QUALYE has turned up the heat under the 1996 G.O.P presidential race. The former Veep hasn't made it to New Hampshire yet, but here are visits other contenders have made or are planning soon...