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National elections in Taiwan have long been routine affairs. The Kuomintang, the dominant political party, regularly wins an overwhelming majority in the two elected houses, the Legislative Yuan and the National Assembly. In the past only independent candidates and two small government-approved opposition parties???which usually support the K.M.T.?have been permitted to compete. Last week, however, for the first time in 41 years of K.M.T. rule, an unsanctioned political group, the Democratic Progressive Party, successfully challenged the government. The party, formed only in September, won twelve of 73 open seats in the legislature and eleven...
...mounting pressure for social and economic reform that had exploded into riots and bloodshed during Diaz Ordaz's regime. López Portillo, in contrast, has worked hardest at wooing disaffected conservatives who were angered by Echeverria. But he has also sought to create new opportunities for opposition political parties???without, of course, threatening the P.R.I.'s overwhelming power. A minimum of 100 of the 400 seats in an expanded chamber of deputies was set aside for opposition groups. In the July election the P.R.I, wound up with 296 seats...
While final negotiations for the trip were taking shape, the U.S. was on the sidelines cheering. Along with playing postman, Washington provided security and intelligence information to both parties???but carefully refrained from offering too much advice. The main fear of U.S. diplomats was that Israel might overplay its hand, which could have disastrous results; but State Department analysts also felt that Begin and Sadat understood each other and each other's needs and would get along. President Carter chatted with the two by telephone before the visit. Sadat said he was "excited, enthusiastic and confident"; the President hoped...
...chief beneficiary of the leftist breach is the coalition of center-right parties???which itself is rent by dissension between its two leaders, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist mayor of Paris. Until mid-September virtually every public opinion poll in France indicated that the leftist alliance would win a majority of the seats in the March 1978 elections. But according to a study by the pro-Socialist weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, the Giscard-Chi-rac coalition would win 246 National Assembly seats to 241 for the Socialists and Communists if elections were held today...
...wife of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson. Things seem to her to have changed a lot since the last Republican Administration (Richardson was an Assistant Secretary of HEW under Eisenhower). "The town seems a lot more open," she says. "You see a broader mix of people at parties???people from different economic and social groups?and a greater tendency to mix Government and media people with the diplomatic corps. The town is more free-flowing...