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...agree with." The difference is that Buchanan believes he is a soldier in the "war for America's soul." He knows he probably won't win the presidency-his is a "long, long shot," he says-but his message, and the pro-life purists who love it, could hold sway over whoever does win the G.O.P. nomination. If he's been tempted to give up, he's always been buttressed by his sister Angela ("Bay") Buchanan, who managed his campaign in 1992 and has told him this year that if he decides not to run, she will and will...
Wrinkled women in kerchiefs and Reeboks sort through communion cards and candlesticks. Choir and clergy robes of every color, reminiscent of Harvard's multihued commencement gowns, sway as soft rock filters past the statues of the Madonna...
...Advancement of Colored People has faced snarling police dogs, cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen and murderous assaults on its members. But none of these posed as dangerous a threat to the N-Double-A's continued survival as the group's own recent leadership. Under the feckless sway of William F. Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member who now leads the New York Civil Rights Coalition: ``The N.A.A.C.P. has become a laughingstock...
GESO has also tried using rallies, marches andpetitions to sway the administration. Leaders saythey're using the successful 1984 election driveof Local 34 as a model...
...citizens rely heavily on Peru and Ecuador. Expatriate and emigre Peruvians and Ecuadorans aren't numerous or powerful enough in this country to sway opinion for U.S. involvement...