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...next year. While she will have the advantage of setting the date, the Labor Party has consistently led in the polls for the past nine months. Last week's Liberal- Social Democratic rift over defense policy may have helped the Tories, who stand to profit more than Labor from centrist confusion. Kinnock's resurgent party nonetheless remains a formidable opponent...
...press also came under attack as part of the state of siege. Six magazines were closed down indefinitely, including Hoy, the journal of the centrist Christian Democratic Party. The London-based Reuters wire service had to close its operations in Santiago after transmitting a profile of Pinochet that referred to the President as an "archvillain." The Italian news agency ANSA was also shut down for disseminating what the government called "tendentious and false information that has offended the armed forces...
...help achieve democracy." Since 1983, when Pinochet loosened some of the restrictions on political activity, the moderates have been struggling to find a way of persuading the dictator to yield to a civilian electoral process. The latest plan was offered in August 1985 by an impressive coalition of eleven centrist and rightist parties called the National Accord, which was put together by Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno. But Pinochet rejected out of hand the Accord's request for elections, the return of exiles and freedom of the press...
...slow start and never recovered. The Socialists, long the ruling party's most serious adversary, lost 25 seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean Government Party did slightly better, losing only two of its 59 seats. Commented Tokyo Political Analyst Takayoshi Miyagawa: "It is more accurate to say that the opposition parties were badly beat up rather than that the L.D.P...
...Prime Minister has maintained his popularity despite a Spanish unemployment rate of 22%. His moderate, centrist economic policy "frightens absolutely no one," as one observer put it. The Socialists have refrained from nationalizing any industries or banks and have even sold some state-owned firms to private interests. Moreover, Spaniards accept the government's promise that modernization and membership in the European Community, which Spain joined in January, will mean future prosperity...