Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also notice the group's friendship with William H. Walsh, a Cambridge attorney who is among the most skilled and the most vocal opponents of regulation of condominium conversion in the city. Walsh who said in an interview early last summer that God gave each and every American the right to own a condominium, served on the CCC housing committee. "Does that make him a member?" Goetz was asked. "Yes, you have to belong to work on a committee," she responded. Walsh said minutes later that he is not really a member, that he had simply donated "six or seven...
...campaigns touched down at Harvard Tuesday, one year and two weeks before the final election. California Gov. and unannounced Democratic candidate JERRY BROWN [left] demanded increased public control of private business and criticized forced busgng before a jampacked Sanders Theater audience. Republican presidential hopeful JOHN B. ANDERSON [R-Ill.] (right) said the country must strengthen itself domestically to reaffirm its standing in the eyes of the world...
...United States moves into the new decade, the Right looks forward with relish to the prospects of oil and gas decontrol, the MX missile system and massive defense spending increases, tax reform amounting to welfare for the rich, a federally-sponsored recession, social service cutbacks, court attacks on affirmative action, rollbacks of hard-won gains in abortion rights and labor law reform. Most of all, the Right expects that the growing public distrust of Big Government and demands for Washington to get its nose out of other people's business will allow the corporations to step into the vacuum...
...revise the criminal code and beat back Communists who were obviously responsible for all these disturbances--and S1 was born. Why is Kennedy, who bills himself the last hope of the liberals, backing it? If you want to be President you have to appeal to the center and the right--and being tough on crime is one time-tested way. And so what if a few civil liberties get trampled...
Carter pulled the same trick in '76, cynically taking the support of the left for granted while he made overtures to the right. Will the left never learn? The only choice is no choice. Had the left pulled out of the '76 electoral fights and accepted that Jimmy Carter Republicanism is not significantly different from Jerry Ford Republicanism, it would be in a much stronger position this time around...