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...year ago, opponents of Reagan's presidency said that Reagan's legacy would be the burgeoning federal budget deficit, regression on civil rights, the right-wing tilt of federal courts and our deteriorating environment--in short, the destruction of America's future...
...Crimson now goes on to face Northeastern in a Metro Leaguc tilt next Saturday at Magazine Beach. The game is billed as Harvard's toughest match left in the season...
Jiang's press performance did more than heighten his visibility. It also dampened speculation that he might serve as Deng's front man for correcting the current conservative tilt within the party's divided leadership and salvaging Deng's embattled program of economic reform and bridge building to the outside world. Although Jiang played no known role in the decision to order the People's Liberation Army into Beijing, he went even further last week than reactionary Premier Li Peng did when he was asked whether the "Tiananmen tragedy" could have been avoided...
...abortion becomes a sufficiently compelling issue, would unhappy pro- choicers defect from the G.O.P. in sufficient numbers to tilt national elections? Stuart Rothenberg, director of the political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
...diplomatic stakes are high for the U.S., which finds itself caught in a three-way tug-of-war between two allies who distrust each other. New Delhi still resents the pro-Pakistan "tilt" that has marked U.S. policy since the 1971 war. U.S. military aid to Pakistan is cited by Indians as the main reason why they embarked on their own buildup...