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Chirac, the first of the major candidates to enter the race, conducted a run-everywhere campaign and relied heavily on the formidable organization of his neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic Party. Barre, by contrast, played down his association with the Union for French Democracy, a loose coalition of center-right parties, and consequently failed to secure a partisan boost. Even though Barre, an economics professor, offered a more trenchant critique of Mitterrand's economic and defense policies than Chirac, all too often he did so in a style better suited to university lecture halls than to political rallies. Said...
...contrast, is such a dynamo that his handlers have tried to tone down his hard-charging image with a poster bearing the slogan COURAGE -- THAT'S CHIRAC and showing an ostensibly relaxed Premier dressed in a V-neck sweater. Moreover, he commands the formidable political machinery of the neo- Gaullist Rally for the Republic Party, which expects to spend $25 million on the campaign. Chirac is running on his record as Premier for the past two years, claiming that his government has cut unemployment rolls by 130,000, boosted economic output by 3.5% and won its war on terrorism. Asks...
...crisis rallied popular support behind the government. Approval ratings for both the neo-Gaullist Chirac and Socialist President Francois Mitterrand jumped in opinion polls. Inevitably, though, the ongoing tension spurred some politicking. Nearly 2,000 protesters showed up when the National Front, the far-rightist party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, defied a government ban by staging a noisy rally in the Place de l'Opera. Le Pen criticized the government for its "nonchalant" attitude toward terrorism...
...latest tragedy marked an inauspicious beginning to the country's historic experiment in what the French call cohabitation. This refers to the power sharing that will now ensue between Mitterrand and France's resurgent conservatives, led by Chirac's neo-Gaullist R.P.R. and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy. At the outset, some observers feared that the odd coupling, a direct result of the March 16 parliamentary elections that gave the conservative coalition a narrow parliamentary majority, would produce only paralysis and instability. To others, it promised to usher in a new age of pragmatism...
Chirac had joined the Gaullist party when he was only 14, and after leaving the Ecole Nationale he rose rapidly through the party ranks, achieving the position of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under Pompidou. "Chirac was like fireworks," remembers one co-worker. "He took off from all sides--his arms, his legs, his ideas...