Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed the need for De Gaulle's worker "participation" program. After the first round of voting, Rocard was barely in second place, 5,109 votes behind Couve. But in the runoff, centrist and leftist candidates, united only by their anti-Gaullism, lined up behind Rocard. He trounced Couve...
Jacques Duhamel, 44, Agriculture Minister, was an outspoken critic of the Gaullist regime. Centrist Duhamel campaigned energetically against De Gaulle in the 1968 general election, decrying the general's policies regarding NATO and the Middle East and his "ten years of personal power and arrogance." During this spring's presidential campaign, he hesitated between Pompidou and Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent...
...Pleven, 68, Minister of Justice, also a Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into...
...patrons, between the presidency and the legislature, between the old France and the new. Politically, Pompidou's unity would doubtless begin at home -in his Cabinet. Some of his most important support has come from outside the Gaullist party, notably from Independent Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Centrist Jacques Duhamel. The endorsements will no doubt be handsomely repaid. Giscard d'Estaing, a successful Finance Minister under De Gaulle, was considered a likely candidate to become Foreign Minister under Pompidou -partly because his most important conditions for support involved working toward European political unity...
...said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor as the man needed in these "dangerous times." Ignoring the fact that Bradley drew support from such respectable, centrist sources as the Los Angeles Times, the Democratic national leadership and Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, Yorty nevertheless repeatedly equated his opponent with the horrors of black and Red revolution...