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...selecting her Cabinet, Aquino demonstrated an understanding of politics that impressed even her harshest Washington critics. Except for two Marcos holdovers--Defense Minister Enrile and Central Bank Governor Jose Fernandez --the 16 men and one woman given ministerial portfolios represent the spectrum of centrist opposition that supported Aquino's candidacy. The Cabinet has a firmly middle-class, moderate cast that is so reflective of Aquino's own background and political views that a reporter at her first press conference pointedly asked whether the choices were too "elite." The Cabinet selections did not please the far left, which decried them...
DIED. Potter Stewart, 70, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981) who became the crucial "swing man" in the Warren Court era (1953-69) and remained a careful centrist who avoided sweeping principles and ideological stances; after a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. He balanced general support for civil rights with opposition to affirmativeaction programs, belief in a vigorous press with a dislike of pornography. In his most famous opinion, he said in 1964 that he could not define such hard-core material, "but I know it when...
...battle lines on how best to resolve the party's problems had been drawn. On one side was a loyalist camp, known as the Mitterrandistes, whose advocates argue that the Socialists must not abandon their original constituency on the left. The loyalists are opposed to a coalition with centrist groups, even if the Socialists take a drubbing in next year's elections and want to leave the door open for a revival of the old alliance with the Communists. "I do not erase the Communist Party from the French political map," said Party Secretary Lionel Jospin, 48, who leads...
...challenge to that view is led by former Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, 55, a political moderate and longtime Mitterrand rival. The Rocardiens are urging the party to shed its Marxist ideological trappings and modernize its image along Social Democratic lines. They say it must reject the Communists and court centrist and independent voters. Said Rocard: "The French people do not want another version of the (Socialist-Communist) common program, warmed over for today's taste...
There were cries of "Liar," "Scab" and "Traitor," and thunderous cheers clashed with raucous catcalls. That was the scene at last week's annual conference of the opposition Labor Party, which quickly developed into a shouting match between supporters of centrist Party Leader Neil Kinnock, 43, and Arthur Scargill, 47, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mineworkers. The most contentious issue at the conference was Scargill's proposal that a future Labor government reimburse the N.U.M. nearly $2 million for court fines and costs stemming from the union's violent yearlong strike, which was broken by the Conservative...