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...municipal elections, they left a haphazardly divided political pie. The Gaullists marginally increased their overall strength, taking 52% of the municipal seats. The Communists won 45 out of France's 193 largest towns-six more than they previously controlled-the most victories for any single party. The divided centrist groups, which Radical Party Politician-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber had hoped to weld into an alternative to the Gaullists and Communists, lost ground to both...
...radicals who seceded from YAF formed two organizations-the Society for Individual Liberty and the Radical Libertarian Alliance. Of the two groups, SIL emerged largest and most influential, taking a more centrist position than RLA. The two organizations formed the basis for most of the events on the libertarian right that have taken place since...
Died. Constantin Tsaldaris, 86, Greece's first elected Prime Minister after World War II; of liver cirrhosis; in Athens. During the Communist rebellion of 1947, he voluntarily stepped down as Premier to assist in the formation of a broad centrist coalition, but stayed on at the Foreign Ministry, where he was instrumental in bringing King George II back from exile and negotiating with the Truman Administration for the massive military and economic aid that was to end the revolt...
...extraordinary political fact of America in the early 1970s is that politically we are a collection of warring minorities with no Real, Silent, Middle America, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal or other kind of majority presently operative. There is increasing evidence that the first principle of the old politics, embodied in Roosevelt's New Deal, of putting many different groups, races, religions and regions under one permanent party tent may not work any more...
...today's U.S. political scene. Our broadest terms-left, right and center-derive from the seating arrangement of the French Assembly in 1789; the terms made sense then, but do they now, when an extreme leftist on one set of issues may be a rightist or a centrist on another set (as, for instance, in the conflict over big v. little government) and when the whole content of leftism and rightism shifts drastically from decade to decade? Much of the currency of our discussion (slavery, rebellion, treason) is Confederate money. We are, in short, victims of terminological conservatism...