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...impact of the voters' rebuff sank in, Christian Democratic leaders searched for explanations. Was it a one-shot protest or part of a continuing decline? The most prevalent theory blamed voter fatigue with a party that had been unable to deal with the country's worsening economic ills. Over the years, moreover, the Christian Democrats have been tarred by recurring corruption scandals, alleged Mafia connections and, most recently, charges of links with the Naples underworld. Although the Communists opposed NATO's plans to deploy new nuclear missiles in Italy and other West European countries later this year...
...black concerns. In 1980 his problems with blacks were evident at the polls: he captured only about 9% of their vote. Events last week put him on the defensive again and revived talk that Reagan strategists have written off the black vote in 1984. First, in an embarrassing rebuff to the Administration, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that racially discriminatory private schools are ineligible for federal tax-exempt status. Then, the next day, Reagan replaced three members of the Commission on Civil Rights with appointees who share his opposition to racial quotas and busing. Reagan, who heatedly claims...
...stunning repudiation, the Senate Budget Committee cut in half the 10.7% real increase in next year's defense spending on which Reagan had insisted "as a minimum." The rebuff was all the more startling because eight members of the Republican majority on the committee joined the Democrats in voting against the Administration...
...would carry the day by rallying voter support for the full range of military needs he endorses. Others hoped he would see the need to modify his stance. In the end he failed to do either. His public crusade backfired badly, and his unyielding position led to a stunning rebuff at the hands of his own party leaders...
Brad Bauer banged two homers good for four RBI's as the Harvard baseball team opened its Greater Boston League season with a 5-3 rebuff of MIT yesterday at the Engineer's Briggs Field...