Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray industrial cities and green bedroom suburbs, Jimmy Carter so far has built a comfortable lead. Though he has been an absentee contender, his surrogates include Governor Brendan T. Byrne, some of the liberal reformers who were McCarthyites in '68 and McGovernites in '72, and independent centrist Democrats. Their main bond is the mutual conviction that Carter can carry the state in June and defeat the Republican nominee next November. They have put together a strong organization and aim to bring out a larger-than-usual primary-day vote...
Giscard's attempted reforms have hurt him with his own party; his abortion measure, for example, was opposed by many members of his centrist, multiparty coalition and got through parliament mainly through the support of opposition Deputies. At the same time, Giscard's early beckonings to the left failed to draw much support among the Socialists, who have become the largest party on the French left. Despite Giscard's innovations, real government and parliamentary power still lies with the old guard. Says Pierre Castagnou, 35, a Parisian catering-company executive whose views are typical of many young...
...stubborn Maronite Christian Chief Executive finally agreed to step down. His successor must be one on whom all factions can agree, and one, moreover, acceptable to neighboring Syria. That might boost the chances of Elias Sarkis, quiet governor of Lebanon's central bank, while dampening those of Centrist Raymond Eddé, an outspokenly antiright wing and anti-Syrian parliamentarian...
...armed forces had a tradition of non-involvement that was rare in Latin America, but Rojas shows that only disagreements among three factions within the military postponed the coup until September 1973. The "reformists" wanted to run the country alone; the "hardliners" wanted to give power back to the centrist parties immediately; the "constitutionalists" wanted to enter into a coalition government, with Allende on hand to "control the masses." The deterioration of a compromise worked out by the "constitutionalist" generals--as well as the knowledge that powerful Chilean industrialists and the United States government urged intervention--precipitated the coup...
Perhaps this explains why Wilson decided to play his trump card--his indispensability to the Labour party. Only Wilson can hold together the centrist Labour M.P.s and the radical, trades union-based leftists. Which is what he is trying to prove. No replacement for him is in sight, no one acceptable by both wings of the party (the closest available is Jim Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary). By thus calling the bluff of his party rivals, Wilson will be able to return to office with his power and reputation refurbished. The Labour Party cannot afford to do without Wilson at this...