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Wills' conservative heroes must meet high intellectual standards-St. Augustine, Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin and, his greatest hero of all, Samuel Johnson. "There's practically no such thing as a real tradition of conservatism in America," he says. "The right and the left today are just splintered forms...
Despite the dissatisfaction among students and workers, there actually is little likelihood of any new outbreak of disorders on the scale of those in May and June. For one thing, the students lack leadership. Daniel ("Danny the Red") Cohn-Bendit, their principal leader last spring, has been banished from France...
It is in this tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster...
Ruling Style. Yet Caetano must walk a delicate line. He is probably in more danger from the right than from the splintered left. Portugal's great landowners and ultra-conservatives have a tendency toward panic, and if they thought Caetano were slipping even fractionally leftward, they might appeal to...
Although he also opposed Humphrey before Chicago, George McGovern refused to retreat into despond. After he and the remnants of Bobby Kennedy's doves were outvoted in Chicago, McGovern quickly joined Humphrey on the convention podium. And while preoccupied with his own successful campaign for re-election to the...