The riches of the humanistic tradition are being perverted by a conjury of ideological assaults.

Instead of a rollicking ideological assault, Mr. Bush has focused on character.

Foreshadowing a traditional ideological assault on the Democrats, Mr. Bush said Perot supporters were "basically conservative people" who should "feel at home with us."

He asserts, "Turk scholars and literati (who raised the same issues) were lost to the Stalinist 'liquidations' or to the 'ideological assault' waged on all dastans in 1950-52."

Mr. Jackson and others suggested that the challenges formed a "common ideological assault" from conservative forces in both parties.

The deficit (caused by irresponsible lending and borrowing) is being used as a smokescreen to disguise the ideological assault on the public sector by a cabinet of millionaires.

The new measures seemed not an ideological assault on free enterprise but a desperate measure to gain control over the economy.

But it is the government's ideological assault on academic values, and its indifference to the social consequences of its policies, that have provoked the growing anger.

It is a multi-faceted ideological assault by large multinational corporations and, as has already been said, the first step in the formation of a global government of multinationals.