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Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who is among the Democratic Party's more conservative members, made a hit in Harvard's liberal boutique last night by recounting his many bouts with the state's predominantly rightwing legislature.
Not that people don't learn more concrete lessons at Harvard. Members of Harvard's nine final clubs learn to be sexist, elitist snobs. Writers for rightwing publications learn new ways to rationalize their irrational hatred of homosexuality. Junior professors learn to take out short-term leases on their homes...
But Weld may also suffer rightwing backlashfrom his resignation from his federal post toprotest Attorney General Edwin Meese's involvementin the Wedtech scandal. Many conservatives chargeWeld with embarrassing the Reagan administrationand attack him for showing a lack of partyloyalty.
If the investigation proves that rightwing elements in the police department--and in the government--instigated such a policy, de Klerk's efforts to undermine the right's political legitimacy will be aided substantially.
When President Reagan took office in 1981, his main foreign policy concern was to prevent El Salvador from going Red. While he took care to maintain a charade of democracy in that country, our policy seems designed to create chaos. First the CIA began to support the right-wing death...