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...Assembly, Mitterrand was threatened from two directions. If the right regained control of the chamber, France could face a constitutional crisis; the institutions of the Fifth Republic are not designed to work if the Elysée and the Assembly are controlled by opposing forces. On the other flank, if the Communists did well, they could force their way into a coalition government and impose their radical demands on the Socialists. Mitterrand's only hope for stable government lay in a Socialist majority or in a strong enough plurality to rule with leftist splinter parties...
Reflecting a major West German concern, Bonn's General-Anzeiger headlined: COMMUNIST PARTICIPATION UNNECESSARY. Reagan Administration officials privately expressed similar satisfaction. Said one U.S. official: "Mitterrand with a mandate has to be easier to deal with than a Mitterrand constantly forced to protect his left flank...
Pity poor Dan Rostenkowski. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is finding that his Chicago-bred ability to cut deals is no match for the disparate forces colliding over the tax-cut issue. The Illinois Democrat had no sooner protected his right flank last week, by exploring with the Reagan Administration the possibility of a compromise tax bill, than he found himself stymied by Democrats who want no part of the multiyear cuts being contemplated, and an Administration that seemed unwilling to make further concessions...
...impelled by some cosmic force, some of the comics penetrate the austere magazine ranks that flank the central heap. On the shelf labelled Atlantic Monthly sits "The Penguin Book of Comics" and Mickey Mouse waves from the cover of "Gli Anni Ruggenti di Topolino." The Christian Science Monitor shelf contains another volume of Topolino and a coffee-table book entitled "The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Then, before Commentary and Consumer Reports, come three shelves labelled "Comix," "Comix Continued" (this one has copies of The Economist), and "You Guessed It." On the first of these...
...last year's disaster with readings from seismographs and tiltmeters - which measure the swelling of the earth's surface - scientists have determined that the eruption was triggered by a magnitude5 earthquake that shook the mountain on May 18, the day of the volcano. The tremor dislodged a flank of the mountain already swollen from rising semimolten rock. A huge hunk of the mountain rumbled downhill like a great sliding door, uncovering rock saturated with compressed gases. Exposed to the air, the gases exploded. Geologists are encouraged by the fact that the lava dome that has been forming...