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...part because of Labor's poor showing in opinion polls. As the political home for most Asian and black voters, the party has long championed racial equality. But its leaders are fearful of a white backlash if Labor appears to support too many black candidates, some of whom are outspoken radicals associated with the party's "loony left." Racism also poses a formidable electoral hurdle. "In the U.S., at least it is never questioned that blacks are Americans," says Boateng. "The tragedy is that however long you are here, even if you were born here, you can never be British...
...former member of Aquino's Presidential Commission on Human Rights: "It's a dangerous phenomenon that can easily get out of hand." Conservatives, including many officials of the Roman Catholic Church, counter that the people have a right to self-protection. The vigilantes, says Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, represent the "people reacting to the violence of the rebels." Says Army Commanding General Rodolfo A. Canieso: "It is the inherent right of a citizen to defend himself. Everything else is politics...
Weinberger said that critics of SDI ignore theimportance of finding new ways to deter theSoviets. "The inability of our critics to offersatisfactory answers has driven them to takerefuge in narrow budgetary wrangling and criticismof our scientific abilities," said Weinberger, whohas been one of SDI's most outspoken proponents...
...belief that the Scriptures forbid women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from an unbroken church practice of ordaining only men. Bishop Leonard has collected 18,000 signatures from conservative Anglicans, some of whom...
...visiting Americans and their hosts engaged in good-natured sparring throughout the week. Spotting Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was Reagan's outspoken United Nations Ambassador until 1985, a top Soviet propaganda official boomed: "You have said very many critical things about us. Let us discuss them." Gorbachev was courtly with General David Jones, a retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declaring that "I very often quote from your remarks." The Soviet leader had a barbed compliment for Kissinger, the architect of the Nixon Administration's policy of U.S.-Soviet detente. Said he: "You are the author of many interesting...