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Shamir hopes that a rightward trend in Israeli politics, fueled by the continuing Palestinian unrest, will enable Likud to oust Labor from Israel's power-sharing coalition government in this year's elections, scheduled for November. But a gnawing problem for Likud as well as Labor is that the nation continues to be deeply divided over what to do about the occupied territories. At week's end a poll of some 500 Israelis published in the Tel Aviv daily Hadashot showed that while 46% favored the land-for-peace proposal and 37% opposed it, fully 17% were undecided...
GORE. Edging rightward in pursuit of Sam Nunn fans, he showed a solid grasp of arms control and diplomacy. Hart is his equal, but few are listening...
Some Manila newspapers that had been foretelling doom since the August rebellion had a change of heart. "This could be the turning point of the Aquino presidency," wrote the Manila Chronicle. Other papers rushed to publish Aquino's full text. Despite her rightward swing against labor and the Communists, even some of the President's supporters in the moderate left applauded the speech's implications. Indeed, many had felt that her aura of saintliness had got in the way of her politics for too long...
...nonsensical talk during the '80s among cocky Republicans and Chicken Little Democrats of a rightward realignment, voters Tuesday sent some pretty liberal men--and one woman--to Washington. Considering also the liberals elected in 1984, and discounting the cranky Southern bad ol' boys who will chair key committees, the complexion of the new Senate is a fairly healty pink...
...unacceptable shift," snapped Socialist Chancellor Franz Vranitzky. He was referring to an abrupt rightward lurch by his conservative coalition partner, Austria's Freedom Party, which had just elected Jorg Haider, 36, as party chairman. With that, Vranitzky called for snap elections in November...