Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figuring that they cannot top Carter anyhow, right-wing purists argue that they might as well nominate their ideological favorite, Reagan. At the Missouri convention, Governor Kit Bond repeatedly cited a poll showing Ford running twelve points better than Reagan in the state; delegates were unmoved because they knew that the same numbers indicated that both men would lose to Carter. What the delegates overlooked is that if a presidential candidate crashes, a lot of his party's candidates for state and local offices get bumped off too−as happened when Barry Goldwater ran in 1964. The whole...
Ford's faith in his party is basically sound, perhaps dented. "There is a hard core in the party that is very dedicated but very much in the right wing. They get out and do the job, have deep feeling. But they don't represent the broad spectrum of the middle of the road, where I think most Americans are−most Americans in the Republican Party and most Americans in the Democratic Party. The tragedy is that part of the spectrum of the party don't have the same zeal to go to party caucuses...
...Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on the floor of the South African Parliament in 1966). The son of a Transvaal farmer, Vorster in his youth joined anti-English Afrikaner nationalist movements, becoming a "general" in what was believed to be a terrorist wing of the so-called Ox Wagon Guard, a pro-Nazi movement. His militant opposition to the Allied war effort cost him 20 months of internment. To this day Vorster maintains that what he did during the war "was right...
...shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking and is identified with the more moderate wing of the ruling Congress Party (TIME...
...South of the 1920s is dead, of course, and so is the Southern Baptism of the '20s. Baptist leaders today protest with justifiable vehemence against stereotyped suspicions. "We're not a bunch of right-wing bigots," says Floyd Craig. "We're a pluralistic people. Every ethnic group is represented." Some 70,000 blacks now belong to the Southern Baptist churches, and several of the organization's key staffers are black. On the other hand, that 70,000 represents only one-half of 1 %-a minuscule figure that Baptist leaders ascribe partly to local autonomy, partly...