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...Nixon apologist, a right-winger or a non-journalist. "What impressed me was how quickly he became a Times person," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's former executive editor. In fact, when Rosenthal began writing his own pugnacious Times column, Safire cracked, "Overnight, you've made me a centrist...
Collor's skills as a political tactician will also be tested. His power base, the National Reconstruction Party, controls only a few seats in the congress. The new President will need to create alliances with centrist parties and rely on a bandwagon effect from his victory to govern effectively. Though he denies it, Collor is known to be deeply superstitious, never entering a room, for example, except with his right foot first. Now he needs to keep his right foot forward for five long years...
...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...
...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...