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...that he could go forth to serve the country. The experience is about as old as being a born-again Christian, though perhaps not so lofty. But it makes no more sense to try to purge Carter's soul of the free-enterprise spirit than to try to sway him from his religious convictions...
...many of whom are older, conservative males, to vote their predilections-or, as one battle-weary activist put it, "their instincts." Some 62% of Florida voters favored the ERA, according to a survey by Jimmy Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell; yet even that margin was not sufficient to sway enough members of Florida's senate. Like legislators elsewhere, some were impressed more by the viewpoint espoused in the road-show tactics of Phyllis Schlafly, an Alton, Ill., housewife and an active Republican, who wrote the right-wing treatise on Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential candidacy, A Choice...
...society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson noted the emergence of a sort of Indian "nationalism" that he likened to that of the Israelis. Clearly, some new assertiveness began crystallizing among the Indians in the 1960s, when they came under the sway of the same influences that had aroused many other minorities into bristling self-awareness. Suddenly, Indians demanded attention in a sequence of media dramatics-the occupation of Alcatraz (1969), the trashing of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters (1972), the new confrontation at Wounded Knee (1973). As it turned...
...some Islamic ideal. But they could offer no historical model for this, and its realization is doubtful because Tunisia, a French protectorate until 1956, has become even more subject to Western influences since independence. More tourists are coming, more Tunisians are travelling, prolonging their schooling, and coming under the sway of Western attitudes and goods...
Particularly galling to Giscard was the Parisian victory of his ex-ally and former Premier, who had dramatically quit the government last year. Winning over Giscard's hand-picked candidate, Michel d'Ornano, Chirac-barring an unexpected upset-will now hold sway in the Hôtel de Ville as Paris' first elected mayor in a century; the office was re-introduced as a result of a change in statutes engineered by Giscard 15 months ago. Previously, Paris was run by government-appointed officials. The mayor's new powers will include administering a $ 1.4 billion yearly...