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...economy, slowly revving up since the late 1940s with the help of a steady infusion of American economic and military aid, has lately taken off under the austere stewardship of the rightist military regime of Colonel George Papadopoulos. The junta, which seized power in a bloodless 1967 coup, has wooed foreign investors with tax breaks and low-interest loans, and has helped to create a healthy business climate by ruthlessly suppressing political unrest. By last December, when postwar American aid had reached $3.95 billion, the regime announced proudly that further handouts would no longer be needed...
That is, perhaps the only way to interpret the emblems of democracy. Despite the radical and rightist cant, the American symbols contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave...
...because of his police background, he has been branded an arch-conservative similar to Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. In his campaign, Biaggi will have to present a set of clearly thought-out positions on issues to convince reluctant Jewish moderates that he is not a racist or far rightist...
...guaranteed annual income. However hedged these moves may be, they are hardly in the tradition of Barry Goldwater--despite the Arizona Senator's support of Nixon against the Ashbrook challenge. Gary Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes that the President has become more of a reformist than a rightist ideologue. His administration is proving Wills right...
Compared to Nixon, Ashbrook looks good in one sense precisely because the Buckeye Congressman is highly principled (or at least highly ideological). The fact that he will do so poorly in New Hampshire is an indication that Rightist ideology is not now--and perhaps never was-- the motivating force behind the Republican voter. Scratch a Republican, and you will find not the renowned old lady in tennis shoes, but rather the aforementioned Wall Street lawyer...