Word: movement
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Brash young leaders with small offices and big dreams-these are the centurions of the movement that claims the title of America's New Right. Its general goals, a drastic reduction in domestic government activity and a hard anti-Communist line abroad, are familiar enough. So is its rhetoric. But the New Right has developed some fresh, effective tactics. It scored a few surprising electoral upsets last year, and now it smells blood...
...Right has different priorities. It stresses 1) the creation of coalitions among special interest groups, 2) support or opposition on specific legislation and 3) concentration on Senate and House seats that can be won. Says William Rusher, publisher of National Review and an admiring expert on the movement: "These are the first conservative groups that really have got down to electoral and legislative nitty-gritty...
That's fine with Dolan, who tells a group of prospective N.C.P.A.C. contributors: "Steve Symms will never have short-term beneficiary of much of the movement's activities. True, Viguerie is taking on more Democratic House candidates as clients. But most of the New Right hit lists feature only Democrats...
Robert Mugabe, a co-leader of the Patriotic Front guerrilla movement, declared from his headquarters in Mozambique that he would refuse to negotiate until his soldiers were accepted as the national army of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. His co-leader (and rival), Joshua Nkomo, did not deign to comment publicly, but his lieutenants said that Britain could hardly be expected to supervise new elections dispassionately...
...would tie up the Santa Monica Freeway (an eccentric passion of the woman in the yellow Corvette) by installing the restrictive "Diamond Lane." Didion, a sometime screenwriter, gives a wonderful insider's analysis of Hollywood as "the last extant stable society." She dismisses the women's movement with some hauteur: "To those of us who remain committed mainly to the ex ploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism." The article is, among other things, very funny, and a pure expression of Didion's contempt for cant...