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What’s Sen. Bill Bradley up to? Recently he was found in same corner as Kennedy, Kerry, Cranston, Mikul-ski—the hard Left of the Senate— voting against Justice David Souter’s confirmation. . . . Even more recently he voted against amendment by Sen. William Armstrong (R., Colo.) that would have permitted Big Brothers organization in Washington, D.C., to turn down gays and lesbians as Big Brothers and Sisters. Could Bradley be buttering up feminists and gay activists for a 1992 presidential bid? . . . Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia is also moving left. Recently he confided to colleagues that he will no longer support development of SDL Earlier in the month he renounced his pro-life position: “I just think we’ve got to distinguish between our moral beliefs and what we’re going to write in law on the subject.” Says Democratic analyst William Schneider: “These days, if you’re not pro-choice you’re going to have a lot of problems in the national party.” … Not afraid of national party is Virginia’s Gov. Doug Wilder, more often mentioned these days than Jesse Jackson for spot on ’92 ticket. Wilder recently wrote Ron Brown, Democratic National Chairman, that Democratic leaders are so out of touch with the majority of Americans that they risk getting “an early start” on writing their memoirs. . . According to Larry Sabato, University of Virginia political analyst: “What I see is a black governor [Wilder] running the most conservative administration the great commonwealth of Virginia has seen since the heyday of Harry Byrd, fortyodd years ago.” . . . The National Journal’s most recent survey of Democratic state chairmen shows Mario Cuomo their favorite (36 per cent) for ’92, over Bradley (15), Bentsen (10), Gore (8), Nunn (4).

Major blow: Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First!, has pulled out, accusing Earth First!ers of moving away from environmental concerns and toward leftist political causes. Environmental leaders, he charges, are “more concerned with the wildness within rather than the wildness out in the forest.” . . . He echoes complaint of Jacques Cousteau, who warns that “the ecology movement is being poisoned by becoming part of politics.” Ecologists, he says, should remain out of direct politics and strive to “inspire them from the outside.” . . . The entertainment world’s big guns are being trotted out to push California’s thirtythousand-word “Big Green” environmental cornucopia (Proposition 128), now fading in the polls. Among its supporters: Meryl Streep, Cher, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Sylvester Stallone, Gregory Peck. . . . National Council of Churches well represented in antiGulf rally organized by Jim Wallis of radical evangelical magazine Sojourners. Wallis says “the alleged national consensus of support for U.S. policy [in the Gulf] must be disrupted.” … At work in the vineyard already, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark: “[The Gulf operation] is a classical form of colonialism as defined in the dictionary.” … In Minneapolis, the Gulf crisis has spawned Women Against Military Madness. … A twenty-campus tour to blast the U.S. position in the Gulf scheduled for October-November by CIA defector Phil Agee is sidetracked by Agee’s lack of a valid passport. Agee lost his Grenadan passport when Maurice Bishop was overthrown, his Nicaraguan passport when Daniel Ortega was defeated by Violeta Chamorro.

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What’s Sen. Bill Bradley up to? Recently he was found in same corner as Kennedy, Kerry, Cranston, Mikul-ski—the hard Left of the Senate— voting against Justice David Souter’s confirmation. . . . Even more recently he voted against amendment by Sen. William Armstrong (R., Colo.) that would have permitted Big Brothers organization in Washington, D.C., to turn down gays and lesbians as Big Brothers and Sisters. Could Bradley be buttering up feminists and gay activists for a 1992 presidential bid? . . . Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia is also moving left. Recently he confided to colleagues that he will no longer support development of SDL Earlier in the month he renounced his pro-life position: “I just think we’ve got to distinguish between our moral beliefs and what we’re going to write in law on the subject.” Says Democratic analyst William Schneider: “These days, if you’re not pro-choice you’re going to have a lot of problems in the national party.” … Not afraid of national party is Virginia’s Gov. Doug Wilder, more often mentioned these days than Jesse Jackson for spot on ’92 ticket. Wilder recently wrote Ron Brown, Democratic National Chairman, that Democratic leaders are so out of touch with the majority of Americans that they risk getting “an early start” on writing their memoirs. . . According to Larry Sabato, University of Virginia political analyst: “What I see is a black governor [Wilder] running the most conservative administration the great commonwealth of Virginia has seen since the heyday of Harry Byrd, fortyodd years ago.” . . . The National Journal’s most recent survey of Democratic state chairmen shows Mario Cuomo their favorite (36 per cent) for ’92, over Bradley (15), Bentsen (10), Gore (8), Nunn (4).

Major blow: Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First!, has pulled out, accusing Earth First!ers of moving away from environmental concerns and toward leftist political causes. Environmental leaders, he charges, are “more concerned with the wildness within rather than the wildness out in the forest.” . . . He echoes complaint of Jacques Cousteau, who warns that “the ecology movement is being poisoned by becoming part of politics.” Ecologists, he says, should remain out of direct politics and strive to “inspire them from the outside.” . . . The entertainment world’s big guns are being trotted out to push California’s thirtythousand-word “Big Green” environmental cornucopia (Proposition 128), now fading in the polls. Among its supporters: Meryl Streep, Cher, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Sylvester Stallone, Gregory Peck. . . . National Council of Churches well represented in antiGulf rally organized by Jim Wallis of radical evangelical magazine Sojourners. Wallis says “the alleged national consensus of support for U.S. policy [in the Gulf] must be disrupted.” … At work in the vineyard already, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark: “[The Gulf operation] is a classical form of colonialism as defined in the dictionary.” … In Minneapolis, the Gulf crisis has spawned Women Against Military Madness. … A twenty-campus tour to blast the U.S. position in the Gulf scheduled for October-November by CIA defector Phil Agee is sidetracked by Agee’s lack of a valid passport. Agee lost his Grenadan passport when Maurice Bishop was overthrown, his Nicaraguan passport when Daniel Ortega was defeated by Violeta Chamorro.