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SUCH REVEALING and useful statements of MacLeish's literary convictions are one great advantage of such a collection. Another is the consistent political stance that emerges. A staunch believer in representative democracy, MacLeish quickly identified threats to the ideals of the Republic he believed in, whether from the left or the right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten...
Schweiker served for 20 years as a Congressman and Senator from Pennsylvania and was Reagan's vice-presidential running mate in 1976. A staunch advocate of basic medical research, he successfully defended the National Institutes of Health and the Public Health Service against cuts proposed by the Office of Management and Budget...
...girl's plight triggers a screechy, preachy political cat fight between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...
During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
...cornerstone of the Federal Republic's foreign policy." That continuity was symbolized by the presence in the Cabinet of Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, the Free Democratic Party leader who served in the same post under Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, and who has been a staunch defender of U.S. leadership in the troubled Atlantic Alliance. Indeed, soon after taking office...