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Some moderates and liberals blamed the loss on the leadership's auction-block approach to shaping a tax bill. Led by Arizona's Morris Udall, a handful of liberals had proposed an alternative one-year tax cut that was easily voted down. Said John Conyers of Michigan: "We...
The new program was the result of the most acrimonious Cabinet debate of Thatcher's two-year reign as Prime Minister. Says one minister: "Margaret came under very heavy fire, with raised voices around the table." The attack was led by Tory moderates who argued for a much more...
Whether Reagan was playing shrewd politics, or merely following his own best instincts, almost did not matter. After naming O'Connor, the President suddenly found himself awash in praise from a wide range of political liberals, moderates and old-guard conservatives. At the same time, he was under harsh...
To the wall went moderates, liberals and leftists who were on record as opposing the dictatorship of Muslim fundamentalists. The most illustrious victim was Poet Said Soltanpour, who had been arrested at his own wedding several weeks before. As an indomitable opponent of the Shah, Soltanpour had been tortured for...
The majority of Maryknollers in the field are probably political moderates whose idealism appears to come straight from American civics textbooks. But the simplest American notions about political conscience and human rights are revolutionary when expressed in most Latin American countries. Sister Rose Mary McCormack, who directs the society'...