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...policy." Most of the Democratic candidates are cautious about criticizing "militarism," for fear of being tagged antidefense, and even more cautious about advancing big- spender ideas; the national deficit is already ruinous. Hart talks about a "more important role for Government, not necessarily a larger one." Joseph Biden is somewhat more inspirational, evoking generational memories of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and constantly quoting a hymn: "And he will raise you up on eagle's wings,/ and bear you on the breath of the dawn...
...altering. Issues that figured in the Reagan revolution -- family values, school prayer, abortion, pornography -- remain powerful. But some of them will be in collision with problems such as AIDS, homelessness, racism, toxic waste, business ethics, nuclear disarmament and the national debt -- a more public agenda, one that veers somewhat away from religion...
Pierre Proudhon, the 19th century French utopian, once wrote of "the fecundity of the unexpected." It is always somewhat dangerous to think that history can be foretold by studying the patterns of the past. Still, the rhythms of change in the past century have displayed uncanny regularity. Schlesinger's theory, inherited in part from his father, is that people have absorbed their formative political values by the time they reach age 18 or so. Ronald Reagan reached that age during the years of Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait now hangs in the Cabinet room in the White House. John Kennedy came...
That policy will make it somewhat more difficult for Dukakis to raise the millions of dollars he will need to stay in the race through the Iowa presidential caucuses and the New Hampshire primary early next February...
...would be offset by lower income tax rates, it has riled even some members of Nakasone's party. Boasts Socialist Leader Takako Doi: "We are seeing an outpouring among conservatives angry with the sales tax because it violates Nakasone's election pledge not to impose new taxes." Nakasone retorts, somewhat lamely, that the long list of goods and firms exempt from the measure qualifies it as merely a "medium-sized" new tax, not the "large-scale"levy that he had promised to avoid. The opposition has vowed to transform a set of local elections, to be held in April, into...