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...mood of the country proved to be markedly different from the findings of most analysts. The Tory cause was aided by two fears that haunt Britain's lower and middle classes: the rising cost of living and the specter of racial tension, a theme vehemently exploited by Tory Rightist Enoch Powell (see box, page 21). But the most important factor was the drop in the electoral turnout, which was the lowest in postwar history; small turnouts almost invariably hurt Labor and favor the better-organized and more strongly motivated Tories...
Visit to Moscow. The outcome was a standoff between the Christian Democrats, who oppose the Ostpolitik, and Brandt's Social Democrats. A big loss was suffered by the rightist National Democrats. But an even more severe setback was experienced by the Free Democrat Party, a loosely knit combination of conservatives and far-left liberals whose 30 Bundestag delegates give Brandt's coalition a thin twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat West German parliament. In two of the three states, the Free Democrats failed to gain the 5% of the vote required to be seated. The plight...
...became clear that he planned to take advantage of the change, his opposition polarized. The wondrously wide-gauged group that served the ultimatum includes Vice President Francisco Lora, who quit Balaguer's Reformist Party over the re-election issue; ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin, the rightist soldier who tried unsuccessfully to crush the 1965 revolution, and the P.R.D. (Dominican Revolutionary Party), which started it. The leftist, urban-oriented P.R.D., Balaguer's chief opposition, has been making headway with charges that Balaguer's police and troops -who he admits are difficult to control -have been...
...brother." While this counsel of perfection may be hard to fulfill, they offer an interesting classification of whites rated according to the stubbornness of their prejudice. They see little hope for a near-future change in attitudes by most blue-collar workers, some "men of influence," or white (meaning rightist) radicals. For the rest...
...violence came from the left. Rightist terrorists have been accused of killing a congressional candidate and two of his supporters as they hung up campaign posters, and of shooting off the nose of the president of Guatemala's electoral council...