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...political fighter always seemed taller than he really was. Friends and opponents alike recalled that the young Sá Carneiro braved catcalls in the National Assembly to speak out for freedom in the dying days of Portuguese dictatorship. Intolerant of criticism in office, however, he drifted rightward. His campaign for Soares Carneiro was based on a threat to resign as Prime Minister. Justifying such a potentially destabilizing tactic, Sá Carneiro said: "Up to now, I have always gambled and always won." Last week, his luck...
Weary of fighting the courts on the prayer issue, some members of Congress have come up with a solution: bypass them. The Senate has passed a bill that would deprive the federal bench of the power to decide certain "voluntary" school-prayer cases, and backers hope that the rightward swing signaled by the Reagan victory will persuade the reluctant House to give the measure its blessing too. The latest Gallup poll indicates that 76% of Americans are willing to go even further and approve a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers...
...demographics changed: Americans in large numbers abandoned the Northeast for the South and Sunbelt. The Democrats seemed to become the party of the cities, the problems, the blacks, the Hispanics and welfare. An undercurrent of racism is down there in the shadows of the rightward trend. The suburbs, more affluent than the cities, are growing; so are the small towns of rural America. Those who fled the cities now have a stake, however small, that they want to hang on to, and yet their taxes are high, and rising. The Republicans' pitch that Democratic deficits are the cause...
...will not be easy for the party to accommodate itself to these new trends. For many Democratic loyalists, any rightward shift looks like a betrayal of the party's commitment to the poor, to minorities, to all the disadvantaged. Nonetheless, the party is changing. After its emotional outburst for Kennedy, the convention nominated a President who has proposed limits on social spending and increases in defense outlays, appointed a Federal Reserve chairman who pushed interest rates to unheard-of levels, all but openly engineered a recession in order to slow inflation, and intends to campaign as an advocate...
...decontrol of oil prices; denounced the SALT II treaty as "fatally flawed" and demanded "military superiority" over the Soviets; urged the restoration of capital punishment; and appealed for the return of voluntary, nondenominational prayer in schools. All in all, said Platform Committee Chairman John Tower, the document represents "a rightward move" in keeping with the increasing conservatism...