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...sharing 24 hours after the ballots were counted. Impassive as ever, the President stepped before TV cameras in the Elysee Palace to deliver a blunt assessment of the election outcome. With two years left to serve, Mitterrand quickly dispelled fears that he would try to use his powers to obstruct the new conservative majority. Said he: "This majority is numerically weak, but it exists. It is thus from its ranks that I will summon the person I will have chosen to form the new government." Leaning majestically forward, Mitterrand added, "As for me, I will strive both at home...
...March 16, Chirac, 53, is the candidate most likely to become Premier. While he has refused to say whether he would accept an invitation to serve as the next Premier, Chirac last week seemed to have all but assumed the post when he demanded that Mitterrand pledge not to obstruct the alliance's economic program. Mitterrand, unimpressed, retorted during his television appearance, "One doesn't place conditions on the President of the Republic...
With so many lobbyists pulling strings, they may sometimes seem to cancel one another out. But at the very least, they have the power to obstruct, and their overall effect can be corrosive. At times the halls of power are so glutted with special pleaders that government itself seems to be gagging. As Congress and the Administration begin working this month to apportion the deepest spending cuts in America's history and to sort out the most far- reaching reform of the tax laws since World War II, the interests of the common citizen seem to stand no chance against...
...understandable, but protecting freedom of expression is essential. Whether zealots burn books or threaten to bomb movie theaters, bowing to their demands is unnacceptable, particularly if they threaten violence. Capitulation to extremists does a disservice to the community and sets a dangerous precedent for those who wish to obstruct free expression...
...birth nearly 23 years ago in Aiken, S.C. He grew to almost 400 lbs., or "350 and rising," according to Clemson University's limited scales. Against Wake Forest once, Perry blocked a punt by punting a blocker. That is, the little fellow who was supposed to obstruct him bounced in the air so high that he knocked down the ball...