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After Chirac's candidacy announcement, polls showed his prospects improving despite doubts over his honesty. "If the President of the United States were found to have been dishonest, it would be irreparable," says René Rémond, president of the National Foundation of Political Science. "But our Latin tradition is more indulgent. I don't think voters will pay much attention to these corruption scandals." However astonishing that may sound, France is a notoriously cynical place. When the second-round election results are declared on May 6, they won't just name the country's new President - they...
...that, he handily won re-election that year and again in 1980. Last January, however, the Justice Department, acting on a federal civil suit that revealed financial improprieties with the Walco National Corp. of New York, which Richmond controlled, began an investigation of the Congressman. Last week Rich mond, 58, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, possessing marijuana cigarettes obtained from his staff and making an illegal payment of $7,420 to a Navy employee who had been helpful in winning Government contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair firm...
...most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles...
...Nazi movement in West Germany had stepped up its attacks on immigrant ghettos and Jewish memorials. In Spain, 18 people have been murdered by right-wing terrorists this year, and neo-fascist rallies have been attracting crowds of 20,000 to 30,000. French Historian René Rémond says these signs are part of "a contagion of violence...
...will keep the political pressure at high pitch. If the police are unable to control the terrorists, the outcry for law-and-order will doubtlessly escalate. In that event, the authorities must take care not to be more authoritarian than the fascist fringe. "Can we keep cool?" Rémond asks. "That is the wager." -By Stephen Smith. Reported by Sandra Burton and Alessandra Stanley/Paris