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Publicly, both parties are still trying to play down their differences. One Communist alderman says the Socialists are merely seeking to impress voters with their independence prior to the legislative elections next March. But the message coming across to voters is more fundamental. "It's a joke," says Centrist Jean-Louis Schneiter. "They have proved that Socialists and Communists cannot work together." The next act will probably be played out when Lamblin and Colin compete for leftist votes in the elections to the National Assembly. Whether or not Marchais and Mitterrand have been able to paper over their differences...
...Moscow anniversary party. He skillfully managed to praise Soviet Communism while reasserting his own independence and calling democracy a "historical and universal" value. Said he: "It is obvious that there cannot be any leading parties or subordinate parties." Ugo La Malfa, the influential leader of Italy's small centrist Republican Party, praised Berlinguer's speech as "a clear-cut turning point" that made the Communists more worthy to participate in running Italy. Meanwhile, in France, Georges Marchais's Communist Party has split with its Socialist allies just when a leftist victory in next spring's elections...
...line. Like so many New York mayoralty races, it is a contest of strange political bedfellows. Koch, the liberal, anti-war, gay-rights activitist, has assumed the status of favorite, riding the Democratic machine to a commanding lead in the most recent Daily News straw poll. Meanwhile, Cuomo, the centrist candidate who entered the race with the blessings of Gov. Hugh L. Carey's new-formed political apparatus, has watched his support dwindle to the lone endorsement of the Liberal Party--a maverick label that, in light of Cuomo's close association with old-line politicos, is at best incongruous...
...than Goodman, more politically subtle than Cuomo, he is the best actor for the only script that New York voters will accept. The past decade of failed idealism, followed by near-bankruptcy, has provided a political mood in the city that will accept nothing but an energetic, well-connected centrist politico, one with an aura of reform but a mind for conformity. And Koch is such a man. Clearly, anyone with the gall to mount a massive campaign against the "charisma" of the Lindsay years and the "clubhouse atmosphere" of the Beame administration--with scripts written by Lindsay's media...
Still, many observers thought that the Communists and Socialists would ultimately kiss and make up. According to Jérôme Jaffre, a director of France's largest polling organization, the fracturing of the alliance will not necessarily send voters scurrying back to the conservative-centrist coalition. "One important element in the Left's strength has always been the poor opinion that people have of the present government," Jaffré noted...