Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intensity of the feud has few parallels in other democracies. In one corner is aggressive, right-of-center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv...
...when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party's broad, centrist faction. Peres, a political activist since the age of 16, was a precocious, widely traveled administrator who had been named director-general of the Defense Ministry at 29, and soon became a dominant figure in the party's right wing...
...foreign emissaries who over-anxiously try to predict the new Administration's policies. For example, after sev eral meetings with Reagan advisers, a group of El Salvadoran businessmen went home with the erroneous impression that Reagan had decided to send military aid to help their nation's centrist government fight leftist guerrillas. To prevent further miscues, Allen warned Reagan's 120 defense and foreign policy advisers to be cautious in their conversations with reporters and visitors from overseas...
...leader of a center-right majority coalition (134 of 250 seats) composed of his own Social Democrats along with rightist Christian Democrats and monarchists. Determined to strengthen his power to amend Portugal's Marxist constitution by electing a more like-minded President, Sá Carneiro opposed respected centrist President António Ramalho Eanes in this week's elections. His candidate, General Soares Carneiro, was an obscure rightist whose main credential for office seemed to be the conservative ideas that he shared with Sá Carneiro's Democratic Alliance...
...ruling junta, in power for little more than a year, seems shakier than ever. Divided between centrist reformers and military hardliners, it is unable to stop the bloodshed and appears to be increasingly vulnerable to a rightist coup. Many Salvadorans are resigned to the inevitability of civil war. At the moment, the government has about 15,000 men under arms, while the leftists have perhaps 5,000 active guerrillas; the military odds, in short, are roughly the same as the ones that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle faced in Nicaragua at the start of the Sandinista rebellion...