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...antigovernment violence since civilian rule was restored 18 months ago. The rioters were protesting President Jose Sarney's decision to increase taxes and prices on such items as cars, electricity, gasoline and cigarettes. The measures, announced just six days after last month's landslide election victory by Sarney's centerleft Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, were aimed at cooling off an overheating economy...
...round of hard-nosed opposition would help them pull themselves together." In the longer run, Mitterrand may have to change the electoral strategy that brought him to power. To find a parliamentary majority in the difficult 1986 elections, the French President must seek new allies, presumably on the centerleft...
...personal appeal may attract many organization Democrats fed up with "permissive liberalism." Buckley and his party, however, still have very far to go. In the 1968 Senate race on the Conservative ticket, he pulled 17% of the vote in New York, where politics for decades has generally been centerleft...
Instant Replay. The latest crisis is rooted in the 1963 decision by the Italian Socialist party to break its postwar alliance with the Communists and join the Christian Democrats in a centerleft coalition, the much-discussed apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left. In the Socialists' opinion, the opening never came, because the government proved to be more center than left. The Socialists complained that the Christian Democrats never delivered on promised economic and social reforms. As a result, in May's general election, the Socialists lost one-quarter of their votes to the extreme left...
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