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never by the lack of it. On the contrary, it would seem that the candidate's stump speech. They oppose a constitutional ban on "little ones" should also include all those ordinary Catholics ...
...The tradition has a In recent interviews in Costa Rica, clearly traumatized long history...
...These observations are They hark back to earlier traditions, principally what is called made in that spirit...
...Many dread the Sandinista military which drafts the youth to fight a war they seek to avoid and which imprisons those suspected of collaboration with the contras...
...Meaning that the notion that most farmers are there is one exception who proves the need...
...he has a center...
...He is Jim overly subsidized is seen as nonsense...
...admirers of Lincoln...
...In contrast, the social COSTS OF THE 'CONTRAS' programs and limited resources of the revolution have barely reached the relatively unorganized and sparsely populated communities of Nueva Guinea...
...This crowd is not exactly what you would call liberal...
...They also fear the contras who kidnap people from their homes in the dead of night and brutalize and murder those who participate in government programs...
...But his words pointed toward politics, like business and thought, works best when there is more common ground than perhaps even the cardinal recog- competition...
...They will fight...
...and forlorn souls once known as liberal and (jafoa moderate Republicans as well...
...It is the political father in tears described a night-time encounter with the army philosophy of the underdog, and its spirit was expressed by while he and others were hiking to a prayer meeting...
...distorted images...
...has as often been broken by theology's refusal to respond to The new independent Republican is not an Eastern elitist new realities as by its precipitous innovation...
...regulated and taxed, the humble employed...
...who distancing of the United States from Israel...
...No, these Republiperception that is accessible to everyone...
...Once that breed occupied what was called a "wing" of the party, and boasted senators like Clifford Case and Jacob Javits...
...In Toronto, like Rockefeller or Elliot Richardson...
...postpones the possibility that their real problems of stifling It is based on the simple notion that the exalted should be poverty and limited political participation will be resolved...
...Madisonians...
...They might consider the neo's 53 Local officials in Nueva Guinea were frank in acknowledgpercent against the Texas populist's 83...
...On the one hand, the Sandinistas have been Nonetheless, it only takes marauding bands of ten to fifteen unduly characterized as "totalitarian" thugs and the contras to wreak havoc with the civilian population...
...sented a real step toward dialogue...
...And the community grieved the deaths of thirteen heroes who can do no wrong...
...They oppose a constitutional ban on "little ones" should also include all those ordinary Catholics abortion and endorse the ERA...
...the world and its centralization of authority within...
...Richardson repudiated tant realities involving humanity are brought about by simple the party platform at the 1984 convention...
...aid to the contras, based on a simplistic and dangerously skewed analysis of the dynamics of change in Nicaragua, only Commonweal: 360...
...Such simplistic characterizations local residents killed by the contras in the preceding six are belied by the voices of those living under the many guns weeks, including a twenty-two-year-old woman, her fivewhich cast their dark shadows across the Nicaraguan coun- year-old daughter, and her sixty-two-year-old mother...
...As a result, ARDE is now in tatters...
...During a recent as "freedom fighters...
...edly been convicted and imprisoned for such crimes...
...The Democratic governor, Mark White, Jr., a neo of some kind or other, had token MAINSTREAM CURRENTS opposition...
...And their pain and grief are only exacerbated by the war...
...Pete Domenici are on their side...
...In other areas of Nicaragua the poor majority have reaped the benefits of educational, THE DOGS NEVER LIE health, and land reform programs...
...These people are victims...
...It is commonly said that Texas is "conservative," but Hightower says it is populist...
...The tryside...
...A Japanese cars, or Rolling Stone magazine...
...The not an echo...
...On the other hand, the contras are visit to Los Angeles, Nueva Guinea, population 1000, commore than the terrorizing remnants of Somoza's National plaints were voiced about contra kidnappings which occurred Guard, and the Sandinistas are definitely less than the popular regularly...
...But Meaning...
...They just had a primary in Texas...
...who are scandalized by the prehensive arms-control treaty, an expanded peace corps, and contrast between the church's defense of individual rights in more environmental protection...
...But the wing collapsed with the political and personal burnout of Nelson Rockefeller...
...T HERE are not many mavericks in Congress today...
...It would be naive to think that Cardinal Ratzinger's Toronto An even more interesting group has risen up in the Demomessage promises any easy resolution of the current disputes cratic party...
...And his session with the theological faculties repre- advocate a new variation on the current wisdoms and pieties...
...Their road will not be easy...
...Rocky left primacy of the faith of the simple people": "The truly impor- politics in disappointment and disgust...
...And they call for in dark moments and moral crises feel that the living individual deeper defense cuts than do Democratic leaders like Les Ashas been abandoned for abstract law...
...Exploiting this vulnerability, OLITICAL debate in this country about social change in Eden Pastora's (ARDE) contra group had some success in Pthe third world is often clouded by a tendency to read building political support...
...History, good sense, and sometimes an insight that can cut more than one way...
...20 June 1986: 359 racy, chain stores, big banks, and probably the TV networks...
...Though Mainstream, when asked, identifies itself with the likes of George Bush and senatorial candidate Jim Broyhill, its members take positions that are almost impossible to imagine "For heaven's sake, Ellen - I didn't ask to be contained in a GOP presidential platform or congressional born a conservative Republican...
...The Goldwater people Cardinal Ratzinger said some intriguing words about "this finally won that old battle for the heart of the GOP...
...That such abuses should occur is due in part to the highly conflicted nature of Nueva Guinea...
...The controversy around aid to the U.S...
...He is the driving force behind something called the Farmers are victims of a lousy trade balance...
...Their existence is also premised on the notion that over theology and the church...
...A Delegate of the Word (Catholic lay minister) told (The latter was Hightower's first employer and lost his Senate of the execution by the army of two of his co-workers in a seat because he came out against Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam remote community...
...as a viable political strategy...
...They do not nizes...
...The faith of "little ones" pin...
...who are Mainstream hints at the need for a tax increase and greater wounded by their second-class status as women or laity...
...were killed, for allegedly aiding the contras, had been victims Hightower is swimming upstream in his party, too...
...Any Democrats here for a voice, tolerated on moral, political, or even military grounds...
...The Creator has cans, like Leach and Lowell Weicker, are made of sterner gone about his work in a thoroughly democratic way...
...Hightower also VARIATIONS ON A POPULIST THEME had token opposition for renomination, but he got 81.3 percent...
...His son Texas politicians like Wright Patman and Ralph Yarborough...
...was killed...
...This Nicaraguan refugees from Nueva Guinea recounted abuses populism bears no love for the Russians, Bella Abzug, they had witnessed at the hands of the Sandinista military...
...say that the Republican party is not just for Reaganauts but Texas populism inveighs against homogenization, bureaucother kinds of conservatives (Burkeans...
...Prominent international human rights groups such as Americas Watch have concluded that abuses are not common, nor, Nicaraguan war apparently, a part of official policy...
...Hightower stands for ing that such abuses have occurred and that they cannot be something...
...Doctors, now Mainstream Forum, a small band of Republicans who wish to they are overpaid...
...But of religious persecution...
...populism...
...And it isn't a bit like New York liberalism...
...This is stuff...
...IAN The war-torn region of Nueva Guinea in southeast Nicaragua has a population of 117,000 scattered across the agriculturally-poor, tropical savannah...
...Neither witness charged that those who War...
...Rather, they were casualties of the Democrats in search of themselves might consider competition war...
...backed contras Democratic Force (FDN) which is dominated by Somoza's fighting the Nicaraguan government has suffered from such hated National Guard...
...However, the U.S...
...has preferred to into the present our personal hopes and fears for the fund the area's unpopular but more "reliable" Nicaraguan future...
...Hightower says that Leach, a thoughtful, courageous young representative Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program is Hee-Haw...
...Many Sandinista military personnel have reportSalem Journal, Winston-Salem, N.C...
...They are more practical, policy-oriented, and some might say humane, than their brethren to the right...
...Much of the population lives in fear...
...Catholic priest there corroborated the killing of the lay deleKEITH C. BURRIS gates and said he had requested and been promised a full (Keith C. Burris is an editorial writer for the Winston- investigation...
...He got 53.8 percent of the vote...
...from Iowa...
...Now a new age demands a new kind of alternative GOP-er...
...They are the New Populist Forum, and though there are some congressional members of the forum like Senator Tom Party politics Harkin of Iowa, the driving force behind this mini-movement is Jim Hightower, Agriculture Commissioner of Texas...
...They might be called the non-neos...
...They want an Economic Equity whose confidence in the church's teachings on sexual morality Act to combat discrimination against women in credit matters, have been shaken by Rome's apparent distance from the reality stronger fair-housing legislation, a test-ban treaty, a comof their own marital experience...
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