Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything is so comfortable, they can try something different." A related reason, however, may be growing boredom with Kohl's stolid style...
...really surprising that the same week that saw a daunting shift to the right in El Salvador also brought forth the first bipartisan U.S. policy toward Nicaragua this decade. The Bush Administration seems unsure how to manage the collapse of the long U.S. effort to build a strong centrist government in El Salvador. But it has accomplished a sharp break with the Reaganite past in cementing an accord with the Democratic Congress to wind down the futile contra war in Nicaragua. The reversal leaves U.S. policy with an uncertain future...
...real loser was the centrist Christian Democratic Party of incumbent President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is terminally ill with cancer. Having lost control of the legislature to ARENA a year ago, the Christian Democrats will hand over the chief executive's office on June...
...reacted cautiously to ARENA's victory. The State Department reminded Cristiani that "our relationship with the new government will depend on its adherence to democracy and respect for human rights." Privately, officials fear El Salvador will once again find itself polarized between ultra-right and far left, with no centrist, reformist government to protect the disenfranchised masses against the violence of both...
...policy in El Salvador has been aimed at shoring up a centrist government represented by the Christian Democrats and President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of liver cancer and leaves office June...