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...both Democrats and Republicans say this is one fight that promises to be so big and complicated that he will have to engage. His surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial short term...
FRANCE Careful Choices Wasting little time after his May 5 landslide re-election, French President Jacques Chirac appointed an interim government of conservative allies to set policy ahead of general elections in June. Led by centrist Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the rightist government will seek to address popular voter issues like rising crime, while revisiting measures passed by the leftist coalition of former Premier Lionel Jospin. The nomination of the Raffarin team marks the first time Chirac has shared power with a friendly government since the left swept to power...
...That will likely prompt a huge mobilization of centrist opinion of the left and right to negate that extremist sentiment by giving Chirac a huge margin of victory in the second round. But that won't reverse the fact that France has dispensed with a taboo here: They've got a neo-fascist into the second round of a presidential campaign, because enough French people are buying his message of law and order through curbing immigration...
...week. He was already first secretary of the Socialist Party when it first held power way back in 1981. He says that, while he is a socialist, his program will not be socialist - which is only pragmatic of him, since the outcome will be decided by centrist voters. But a vote for Jospin is still a vote for a state that takes more than half the national income in tax and welfare payments...
Moreover, why does any political group that strays from bland centrist ideology—including the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—immediately meet with the student body’s disdain...