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As expected, first appointments by newly elected GOP Gov. William Weld in Massachusetts have been liberal Republicans, leaving conservative Republicans in outer darkness yet again. Weld’s candidate for new GOP state chairman is George Bush’s nephew Alexander “Hap” Ellis, but that post may be contested by conservative GOP Senate candidate Jim Rappaport, who failed to unseat John Kerry. . . . Molly Yard, the radical president of NOW, is delighted that Democrat John Silber was beaten by Weld, but William Bennett, Republican National Chairman designate, was not. Silber’s defeat was “too bad for the Democratic Party and for the country,” said Bennett, who confesses: “There were a lot of things I disagreed with Bill Weld on, and a lot of things I agreed with John Silber on.”. . . Republicans won seven new seats in Massachusetts Senate, which means they could sustain a Weld veto. . . . Jimmy Carter’s former chief economic advisor, Stuart Eizenstat, warns Democrats against tagging the GOP as party of the rich. “As between two national parties, neither of which seems focused on their problems, they [middle-class voters] will identify with the one representing the most successful in society rather than the party identified with the least successful.”. . . Steven Salmore, GOP political consultant and professor at Rutgers, agrees: “There is no support for the belief in redistribution of income,” he says, “if it means higher taxes.”. . . Political analysts on both sides believe affirmative action and quotas could emerge as major issue in 1992. For the record, the 11 GOP senators who voted to override Bush’s veto of the civil-rights bill of 1990 were Rudy Boschwitz (the only Republican senator not to win re-election), John Chafee, William Cohen, John Danforth, Pete Domenici, David Durenberger, Mark Hatfield, John Heinz, James Jeffords, Robert Packwood, Arlen Specter.

Margaret Thatcher’s resignation was cause for sadness in unexpected places. Gennadi Gerasimov, until recently chief spokesman for Soviet foreign ministry: “In our imagination she was the Iron Lady who would fight to the end. We will remember her as someone who made a great contribution to the good relations between the Soviet Union and the Continent.”. . . Prominent Soviet parliamentarians Ilya Zaslavasky and Arkady Murashev believe that without Mrs. Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union might never have been pressed to begin its revolutionary reforms…. In France, former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing paid her a gracious tribute: “Margaret Thatcher will have been, with Winston Churchill, the greatest British prime minister in the last fifty years. She has earned our applause.”… In Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl received an unexpected assist last week from Social Democratic former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Schmidt predicts Kohl will win the December 2 election and adds that the Social Democratic challenger, Oskar Lafontaine, “deserves” to lose. Kohl’s Christian Democrats are leading in the polls by 45.5 per cent to 35 per cent.

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As expected, first appointments by newly elected GOP Gov. William Weld in Massachusetts have been liberal Republicans, leaving conservative Republicans in outer darkness yet again. Weld’s candidate for new GOP state chairman is George Bush’s nephew Alexander “Hap” Ellis, but that post may be contested by conservative GOP Senate candidate Jim Rappaport, who failed to unseat John Kerry. . . . Molly Yard, the radical president of NOW, is delighted that Democrat John Silber was beaten by Weld, but William Bennett, Republican National Chairman designate, was not. Silber’s defeat was “too bad for the Democratic Party and for the country,” said Bennett, who confesses: “There were a lot of things I disagreed with Bill Weld on, and a lot of things I agreed with John Silber on.”. . . Republicans won seven new seats in Massachusetts Senate, which means they could sustain a Weld veto. . . . Jimmy Carter’s former chief economic advisor, Stuart Eizenstat, warns Democrats against tagging the GOP as party of the rich. “As between two national parties, neither of which seems focused on their problems, they [middle-class voters] will identify with the one representing the most successful in society rather than the party identified with the least successful.”. . . Steven Salmore, GOP political consultant and professor at Rutgers, agrees: “There is no support for the belief in redistribution of income,” he says, “if it means higher taxes.”. . . Political analysts on both sides believe affirmative action and quotas could emerge as major issue in 1992. For the record, the 11 GOP senators who voted to override Bush’s veto of the civil-rights bill of 1990 were Rudy Boschwitz (the only Republican senator not to win re-election), John Chafee, William Cohen, John Danforth, Pete Domenici, David Durenberger, Mark Hatfield, John Heinz, James Jeffords, Robert Packwood, Arlen Specter.

Margaret Thatcher’s resignation was cause for sadness in unexpected places. Gennadi Gerasimov, until recently chief spokesman for Soviet foreign ministry: “In our imagination she was the Iron Lady who would fight to the end. We will remember her as someone who made a great contribution to the good relations between the Soviet Union and the Continent.”. . . Prominent Soviet parliamentarians Ilya Zaslavasky and Arkady Murashev believe that without Mrs. Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union might never have been pressed to begin its revolutionary reforms…. In France, former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing paid her a gracious tribute: “Margaret Thatcher will have been, with Winston Churchill, the greatest British prime minister in the last fifty years. She has earned our applause.”… In Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl received an unexpected assist last week from Social Democratic former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Schmidt predicts Kohl will win the December 2 election and adds that the Social Democratic challenger, Oskar Lafontaine, “deserves” to lose. Kohl’s Christian Democrats are leading in the polls by 45.5 per cent to 35 per cent.