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...would a sitting President, assured of the Republican nomination, add such a personal touch to this formality? Ask Pat Buchanan, the polemicist turned candidate, whose aggressive effort to shift the G.O.P. rightward threatens to siphon off enough conservative votes to embarrass Bush at the outset of what could be a tough re-election bid. Buchanan "deserves the Christopher Columbus award," quips Democratic state chairman Chris Spirou, "because he forced Bush to discover New Hampshire...
...optimism is overblown. The cordon of communist-run industrial towns around Paris has frayed over the past decade as the country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture...
Making the court unsafe for all kinds of cases is part of the conservative agenda. A sampling of last week's rulings gives a good indication of the court's current rightward tilt...
...NATION: Rightward...
Since 1979, fundamentalists have inexorably gained power in the biggest and richest U.S. Protestant denomination, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Last year the rightward tilt was affirmed when fundamentalist Morris Chapman of Texas was elected president over Georgia's Daniel Vestal, leader of the moderates. Fundamentalists (who prefer to be called conservatives) have since piled pressure on Baptist seminaries to teach the literal historical accuracy of the Bible. They have also sacked recalcitrant officials like Lloyd Elder, head of the Sunday School Board, the huge denominational publishing house based in Nashville...