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...attempt by eight influential politicians to form an alternative centrist agenda to the standard Democratic and G.O.P. fare has fizzled. One faction of the group, led by former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, produced a fiscally conservative, socially liberal manifesto but recoiled at the idea of backing an independent candidate. Retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley declined to endorse the program, and former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker rebelled at the idea of abandoning a third party. Some think Weicker may now try to hook up with Ross Perot's new party. But the chemistry between...
TOKYO: Three rival Japanese political parties have joined forces to ensure trade minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's victory as Japan's next prime minister in Thursday's parliamentary vote. United against New Frontier Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, the coalition is comprised of Hashimoto's conservative Liberal Democrats, the centrist Sakigake party, and the leftist Socialists. "What unifies these parties primarily is the desire to avoid scheduling elections," notes Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "The bargain was originally to let a Socialist be prime minister; now it's the LDP's turn." Hashimoto has gained popularity and a reputation as a tough...
...bright, tricolor billboards all across Moscow, Chernomyrdin earnestly appeals to voters to cast their ballots for Our Home Is Russia, the political movement he founded last April in a bid to create a strong centrist party loyal to the Kremlin. IF YOUR HOME IS DEAR TO YOU, the slogan reads...
...status quo instead of an affirmation of the Contract with America. Instead of appearing as a tax-and-spend liberal who wants to take away Americans' health care choices (as Republicans effectively portrayed him in 1994), Clinton now looks like the only sane voice in government, a centrist who will curb the excesses of Congress...
...dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures the "values" debate--can win the presidency in '96. It is not the economy, stupid, Wattenberg says; what voters really care about is social issues, especially welfare, crime, education and affirmative action...