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...Though Royal began with a highly non-Socialist reminder of the parlous state of France's finances (public debt amounts to 64% of gross national product, or 18,000 euros per citizen), she followed that up with a long list of new and expensive programs that will hardly give France the balanced budget it has lacked for decades. She vowed to increase the guaranteed minimum income from 1,254 euros a month to 1,500 euros; to increase the lowest state pensions by 5%; to have the state pay rental deposits for its poorest citizens, to offer all young people...
...wing parties, but also the ruling Social Democrats ( SDP). Marita Ulvskog, Social Democratic Party secretary, fears that the FI could steal votes from the left-wing coalition: "This could mean that we lose the next elections. And I don't think women's causes are better served by a non-Socialist government." While analysts believe FI has a good chance of winning seats in Parliament in 2006, they also predict that it could be a one-off performance. Single-issue parties rarely live long. But this prospect doesn't deter Schyman. "We are asking for the voter's mandate...
...Falun Gong on the mainland. Officials say the band isn't banned, but the same doesn't go for their even more popular Taiwanese TV series Meteor Garden, in which the F4 boys play spoiled rich kids who drive BMWs, chase girls and engage in other non-socialist behavior. The Beijing Youth Daily complained that the series gave teen viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society"-which, one might think, is pretty much the point of television. Nevertheless, the government banned what parents were calling "electronic heroin" after six episodes. That hasn't stopped thousands of mainland fans...
After Mladenov's departure, the Socialist leadership agreed in principle ^ that a non-Socialist should fill the presidency. But last week saw their hopes of installing a candidate of their choice dashed. After five ballots ended in deadlock, members of parliament, by a vote of 284 to 105, elected as President Zhelyu Zhelev, the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces. Zhelev, who ran unopposed after all parties withdrew their initial candidates, needed a two-thirds majority of the members present...
...hard-line conservatives should be willing to admit that the Soviet Union's current changes represent progress. To argue that a virulent anti-communist like Reagan has suddenly turned naive is ludicrous. Such assertions carry about as much weight as the Kremlin's denunciations of human rights abuses in non-socialist countries...