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...present plight of the G.O.P. argues against an easy comeback. As the party has grown smaller, it has become more set in its ways ?less willing to compromise or extend itself. Too many moderates have dropped out of the G.O.P., especially in reaction to Watergate. Local party organizations have been left in the control of conservatives, who are inclined to be suspicious of almost all Government initiatives, however beneficial they may seem to the rest of the country. They also tend to oppose detente with the Soviets, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment and gun control, for all of which...
...Labor Party's left wing continues to demand the nationalization of shipbuilding, aircraft production and banking-in disregard of the fact that most of Britain's already nationalized industries are chronic money losers whose inefficiencies are a major cause of the country's dismal economic plight. In West Germany, the unions still support the profit motive but are demanding a more decisive voice in how earnings are allocated between workers and shareholders...
...Gordon space opera. On the crest of the wave--which demanded that science fiction be less technically oriented and more an examination of what human life and relationships would be like in the future--was Herbert's Dune. Dune is a swashbuckler of a novel built around the desperate plight of the imperial family, the Atrides, on Arrakis, and their attempt to win the emperor's throne. With this novel, Herbert created a masterful pastiche of Fremen, the inhabitants of Arrakis and the best fighters in the universe, Mentats, human computers, and the royal witches of the Bene Gesserit. Dune...
Mondale is primarily known for his devotion to easing the plight of the neglected and the disadvantaged. "I've spent a lot of time suffering over human rights, and I've had some notions based on my personal life," he says. "There's just millions of kids in this country that are utterly destroyed before they have a chance. I think it's the most costly, unfair, outrageous thing that happens in America." To get a better feeling for the problems of the deprived, Mondale has marched with Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers, visited Indians...
Remembering his own problems, Mondale has worked to help deserving students afford a college education. In particular, he has tried to ease the plight of middle-income families by making more of them eligible for federally backed student loans for college. Now chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Social Security Financing, Mondale sponsored the plan that provides automatic cost-of-living increases for recipients of the benefits...