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...Frederic Desagneux, a spokesman for French President Jacques Chirac. The swift reaction was also a reminder that Austria is not alone in flirting with the right. In Germany, far-right parties hold seats in four of 16 states. And in Switzerland, Belgium and France there are nascent but energetic extremist movements knocking on the political door...
...moderate/middle-right coalitions--is not so far fetched. Austria was not the only European nation to experience declining support for moderate social-democratic parties and rising support for the far-right in the last election cycle, and the current turmoil in Germany makes it especially susceptible to the ascendancy of extremist political parties...
...Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson has fared the worst at the hands of revisionists. If he has managed to keep his place on Mount Rushmore, he has been vilified almost everywhere else in recent years as a slave-owning hypocrite and racist; a political extremist; an apologist for the vicious, botched French Revolution; and in general, somewhat less the genius remembered in our folklore than a provincial intellectual and tinkerer...
Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...
...finger-pointer. But right now America is not even sure that there is a problem. There are certainly issues--health, education, social security, guns, the environment, social inequality--but none of these problems have as yet acquired the requisite electoral urgency to favor the liberal or the extremist. The moderate centrist is likely to prevail--although where that center will fall among Albert Gore Jr. '69, Bill Bradley and Bush remains open...