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...Napoleón Duarte and the ruling military-civilian junta to persuade Salvadorans to vote. The election, Duarte argues, is a step toward ending the savage civil war that is tearing the country apart and toward restoring the democratic process. Duarte, who is also leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Party, has the strong backing of the U.S. in calling the election. The tentative plan is for the constituent assembly election to be followed by balloting for President...
...months ago when Williams, along with a dozen other M.P.s of the Labor Party, had bolted in protest over Labor's lurch to the left and formed the S.D.P. At that point, the party was little more than an idea whose time seemed yet to come, but its centrist, common-sense positions promptly attracted dissidents from Labor disgusted with the party's swing left and Tories equally fed up with the intransigence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's archconservatism. This fall, the S.D.P. forged an alliance with the Liberal Party to fight the next general election...
...when his father, soon to become Prime Minister, persuaded Andreas to move back to his native land, did the younger Papandreou plunge into Greek politics. His father may have regretted the decision. Andreas' radical stands, including his opposition to the monarchy, weakened his father's centrist-left government, which fell after only 17 months, and the ensuing political instability provoked the military coup of "the colonels...
...carried the conference, but the battle was far from over. Continued misgivings could be read on the faces of several senior ministers, who saw Black pool as further polarizing British politics, thus benefiting the budding centrist alli ance of Liberals and Social Democrats...
Because the broad choices in 1980 resembled those in the 1964 election--with a relative centrist running against a relative right-winger--Verba said he expected Carter to win, as Johnson...