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Outside his party, Balaguer has another potential rival in Career Diplomat Hector Garcia-Godoy, now Ambassador to the U.S., who as provisional President helped guide the Dominican Republic back to peace after the 1965 civil war. He also faces a rightist challenge by former General Elias Wessin y Wessin, a major instigator of the coup that backfired into war and brought U.S. intervention. Wessin recently returned from three years in exile to lead an ultraconservative party...
...Miller, the climb was especially reassuring: the show ends his exile from the air for his rightist views. For 15 years, on other stations, he had been the most popular radio disk jockey in the Midwest. Then one morning ten months ago, four days after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Miller began talking about the post-assassination rioting on Chicago's West Side. On his top-rated WIND show, he declared that there should be a day of tribute for "our brave policemen and firemen." Then, noting an inflammatory-and, it developed, totally false-report that...
...Liberals--like their radical and rightist counterparts--also have a tendency to factionalize along ideological lines. It is hard to avoid...
...world's more conservative, anti-Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
...major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce as a man with the viewpoint of an "18th century gentleman," Laird Goldsborough served for 13 years as Foreign News editor. Devoted to property and royalty, he took Mussolini's side in the Ethiopian war During the Spanish Civil...