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Drawing conclusions about the court's past term is not easy. The Justices' drift tends to be rightward, favoring property rights and turning cautious in providing redress for the poor. The court generally opposes judicial activism, favoring legislative settlement of conflicts. This year, at least, it has made no real landmark decisions, and law professors tend to judge it harshly. "The court is without leadership." says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard...
...DEMOCRATIC convention was not so much a repudiation of 1972's majority and the Chicago convention's large minority as it was a consolidation of certain gains, the greatest of them in the international policy sphere. The Democratic party can now go only so far rightward and still maintain itself, the Democratic left having formed during the struggles against the Viet Nam war and currently composing from a third to a half of the party...
...numbers only 1000 adherents and sympathizers out of an officer corps of 28,000. The army's massive right wing is now being called upon to suppress the left, with Franco's Civil War companions leading the general staff. The politicization of the army rightward will lead to increased support for the UDM--the junior officers' organization thrives on every new abuse of the entrenched fascist generals...
...still the majority party of the working class, torn by tensions ignored in the American press between radicals faithful to the party's Marxist program and conservatives. The party's rightward tilt is unmistakable, exemplified by its July decision to resign from the Goncalves cabinet over workers' seizures of Republica, the party's newspaper, and Renascenza, the Church's radio station. While the PSP and the liberal press characterized the seizures as Communist plots to suppress "free speech", few involved workers--only two at Republica--were Communist Party (PCP) members...
Studying the Soviet Union has moved him rightward, except he says it a different way, with a question: "The main problem for my generation was, 'How do you have socialism without falling into tyranny?' For me, acquaintance with the documents of Soviet society was a gradual process of disabuse...