Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accomplishments, though, Suárez failed in one democratic essential: he was unable to mold a coherent political party out of the disparate centrist and conservative groupings that made up his Union of the Democratic Center (U.C.D.). Last week, fed up with relentless sniping within his party, Suárez, 48, acted with uncharacteristic boldness and resigned his posts both as head of the government and party leader...
...move toward a breakaway was led by a trio of former Cabinet Ministers -Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers-who created a new "Council for Social Democracy" to protest radical policies and eventually form the basis of a new centrist party. They immediately became known as the "Gang of Three," but were quickly joined by a fourth, former Deputy Leader Roy Jenkins. By week's end, nine more Labor M.P.s had joined the rebel ranks...
...pursued by the [Thatcher] government" might be attracted to a new "third grouping." Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 41, called for the right-wingers to "abandon Labor" and predicted that a new party "could prove an unstoppable combination." The early polls supported him. One survey suggests that a new centrist coalition could win nearly 40% of the popular vote, vs. 31% for the hard-line Tories and 29% for left-leaning Labor...
...commission's head is former Law Professor Guillermo Ungo, 49, a prominent Social Democrat who served for three months on the original junta that was installed after the overthrow of the military regime in October 1979. In the 1972 elections Ungo was the vice-presidential running mate of centrist Christian Democrat José Napoleon Duarte. A member of the Socialist International, alongside such respected Social Democrats as Willy Brandt, Ungo is said to be planning to tour foreign capitals in an attempt to muster broader democratic support for the revolution...
...Discrediting centrist spokesmen of opposition as puppets of hardline guerrilla leaders...