Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France does not run the risk of falling into Socialist-Communist hands." The logic convinced no one. Premier Raymond Barre, visibly angered, charged that Chirac's move would sow such political confusion in the ranks of the majority that his economic-recovery program would be "compromised." Added Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet: "Far from strengthening the majority, Mr. Chirac's initiative risks giving the left a chance." Though Paris has long been a conservative stronghold, recent polls do indeed show gains by the left, and the spectacle of a divided majority just might give it the election. Whatever...
...Voters. Still, Japanese voters remain wary of radical alternatives. Among the strongest evidence of that was the pounding the Communists took at the polls. Voters apparently shied away from giving them real power as the L.D.P. weakened. Indeed, last week's most striking gains were scored by the centrist New Liberal Club, led by Yohei Kono, 39, who broke from the L.D.P. last June. Of the 25 candidates Kono fielded, 17 won, an astonishing triumph for a new party in Japan. Kono told TIME last week: "We're not socialists. But we insist on equality of opportunity...
...that all Catholic leaders are fighting the state. In Argentina the bishops and centrist priests have been reluctant to criticize the new military government, which is striving with great difficulty to re-establish public order. Moreover, the church's authority has been weakened by the past involvement of a group of Argentine Third World Movement priests with left-wing Peronist guerrillas...
...told President Ford he planned to stay on, and that he would have remained had he not fallen afoul of Henry Kissinger, who disapproved of his too independent line. After resigning from his U.N. post, Moynihan returned to Harvard, where for four months he pondered a political run. Centrist party leaders courted Moynihan for two reasons: they thought he was best able to retire Buckley and enrich New York's anemic influence in Congress. The strategy seems sound. For one thing, Moynihan, as a Catholic who attends Mass regularly at Manhattan's St. Ignatius Loyola Church...
Democratic activists are far to the left of most Democratic voters, while Republican party leaders are far to the right of their electorate, the poll shows. Orren yesterday attributed Carter's primary victories to his centrist stance, and his increasingly liberal position to an effort on Carter's part to firm up his Democratic support...