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Though it boasts prominent names, including Senators Arlen Specter, Nancy Kassebaum, John Chafee and Warren Rudman, the new assemblage faces rough going. Other moderates, reluctant to anger religious activists, declined to join the effort. Even the pugnacious Specter cautioned afterward that "it is important that we not pick fights or...
As the Rev. Pat Robertson's religious right steps up its efforts to influence the GOP, party moderates moved this week to form the Republican Majority Coalition, aimed at bringing the party "back to its mainstream."
Yet From is enjoying a vindication of a kind. During the 1980s, he and a small band of Democratic centrists pioneered many of the "new" ideas that would eventually help elect the first Democratic President since 1976. Liberals and some party leaders who scorned the From crowd's unconventional approaches...
That's unlikely under Clinton. It is a measure of the President-elect's elasticity that both liberals and moderates believe they own the Arkansas Governor's heart and mind. Clinton has shrewdly recruited officials from both wings, creating an internal tension that will probably force him to slalom back...
FOREIGN POLICY. Reagan was supposed to be -- and was -- naive on foreign matters. He thought the evil empire could be stymied with a magic weapon, the "defensive" Star Wars. He also thought that weapon so purely defensive that its technology could be shared with the Soviet Union. Reagan outdid both...