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...extra voices Reagan heeds when the issue is Central America. Two months back in The New Republic, a white House aide told Carl Bernstein that the President has a stable of wily Svengalis--"His reservoir of right-wing friends and contacts from the old days"--urging him rightward into Nicaragua. "He can be his own worst enemy, particularly when he gets some hare-brained ideas from reading right-wing garbage," the aide told Berstein. "A lot of times that's when the trouble starts...
...policies of apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate. Far from warming to reforms in apartheid, white South Africa threatens a violent backlash...
...other areas of debate, the starkness of the choice is highlighted repeatedly, and one has to start with the respective choices for vice president. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-Queens) is cut from the same compassionate liberal clothe as Mondale, and she is infinitely preferable to George Bush, whose rightward drift while in office has supplanted his past record as a thoughtful moderate...
Moore said he believes students' politics are definitely heading rightward: "There is no getting around it." Undergraduates' biggest concern is economic progress, Moore said, and they are more concerned about their standard of living than about foreign policy questions...
...court drifted under Chief Justice Warren Burger in the '70s, neither truly liberal nor conservative but divided and unpredictable. Decisions often turned on one vote. But since the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor by President Reagan in 1981, many experts have begun to discern a rightward tilt. "There is a trend, but it is a slow oozing, a step-by-step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of law at the University of Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart...