Word: centrists
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...election were held now, the latest poll suggests, astonishingly, that the new party could win 35% of the popular vote vs. 29% for Labor and 27% for the Tories. An alliance with the centrist Liberal Party would give the S.D.P. 46% support, enough to guarantee a sizable majority in the 635-seat House of Commons. Thatcher does not want an early election, since both she and Labor Party Leader Michael Foot are showing the lowest personal standings for any Prime Minister and party leader since the war. "Every day I pray that Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot will...
...centrist force is born
...Lloyd George were among the Prime Ministers who headed Liberal or Liberal-dominated governments. An ideological split in 1918 was the cause of the decline of the Liberals, which in turn resulted in the rise of the Labor Party. If the present schism in the Labor Party continues, the centrist Liberal Party may yet prove to be a political phoenix...
Venezuela, one of the few democratic countries in Latin America, and an early supporter of the Nicaraguan rebellion, has denounced the El Salvadoran left, and supports the centrist regime. Mexico, too, has shied away from its early support of the guerrillas as their nature and backing became clear...
...this time, the U.S. government is preparing to send between $63 to $200 million in economic, as well as some military aid to the centrist regime. One must be realistic: either a right-wing or a left-wing take-over will bring repression, massive blood-letting, and another discarded cause on the rubbish-heap of liberal infatuations. The only pro-democratic force in El Salvador is the moderate regime. Beset on both sides, it needs, and deserves, out support...