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...half of France's 3,848 cantons, or voting districts, not only had the conservative opposition won and the ruling Socialists lost, but the far right had won big and the far left had lost badly. In all, the established conservative coalition claimed 49% of the votes, while the maverick, ultrarightist National Front party scored an impressive 8.7%. By contrast, the combined forces of the Communists and the Socialists won only 41% of the ballots, with the Communists losing almost half the number of seats they had taken in comparable elections six years...
DIED. Iosif Shklovskii, 68, maverick Soviet astrophysicist and radio astronomer who made basic discoveries about neutron stars, quasars and novas (exploding stars), and also led the Soviets' search for extraterrestrial intelligence; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. In the mid-1960s he posited that some intense radio emissions came from advanced alien civilizations, but they proved to be from quasars. Shklovskii's 1966 collaborative book with U.S. Astronomer Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, is still considered the basic treatise on the prospects for life beyond earth...
...maverick Texan was waging war on two major fronts last week. He was acquiring additional stock in California's Unocal (1984 sales: $11.5 billion), the 14th largest U.S. oil company, in which he already owns 16.9 million shares, or 9.6%. Meanwhile, shareholders of Phillips Petroleum, which tangled with Pickens in 1984, met in Bartlesville, Okla., to vote on a plan that would give Pickens and his partners an $89 million profit on an aborted takeover battle. Rejection of the plan would open the way for Rival Raider Carl Icahn to continue his pursuit of the company. But it could increase...
...Minister Andreas Papandreou. Accompanied by five Cabinet ministers and two under secretaries, he paid his first official visit to Moscow last week. It was a four-day event that not only celebrated closer Soviet-Greek ties but allowed the Greek Socialist leader another moment in the spotlight as the maverick of the Western alliance. An element of dramatic suspense was provided by ailing Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, 73, who has not made a public appearance in seven weeks. Only five hours before the scheduled meeting, Papandreou's aides announced that Chernenko, who suffers from emphysema and related ailments, could...
...Weinberger may find the going tougher than usual on Capitol Hill, where discontent is growing even in precincts normally friendly to the Pentagon. House Democrats ousted Arms Services Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois, an aging and pliable hawk, and replaced him with Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a maverick who has often crossed the Pentagon. In the Senate, the retirement of Armed Services Committee Chairman John Tower, the Pentagon's chief congressional water carrier in years past, paved the way for the succession of the independent-minded Barry Goldwater. Vows Aspin: "Congress simply isn't going to go along with letting...