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FRANCE Careful Choices Wasting little time after his May 5 landslide re-election, French President Jacques Chirac appointed an interim government of conservative allies to set policy ahead of general elections in June. Led by centrist Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the rightist government will seek to address popular voter issues like rising crime, while revisiting measures passed by the leftist coalition of former Premier Lionel Jospin. The nomination of the Raffarin team marks the first time Chirac has shared power with a friendly government since the left swept to power...
Detractors say Fox owes its success to conservative viewers drawn by rightist-skewed news. Fox says it simply provides a "fair and balanced" alternative to liberal-media bias. Either way, it would be naive not to see that the channel, home to a raft of conservative personalities like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, is a comfortable home for right-of-center viewers. But while it is tempting to see Fox's success in red America-vs.-blue America terms (i.e., Bush regions vs. Gore regions), there is as much a cultural as a political divide, manifest as much...
...ringing in the end of the governmental power of the left camp in Europe." Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, a longtime personal friend and political ally of Berlusconi, predicted that the "closeness" between them would make Spanish-Italian "bilateral relations grow even stronger." No European rightist took greater personal satisfaction than Haider, who remarked that "the E.U. burned its fingers with Austria and doesn't want that to happen again with Italy...
...unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments to join the war on drugs, so does it pay for the drug cartels to invest heavily...
...local leftist gains will automatically translate into a Jospin victory in 2002. "If Paris and Lyons go left, people will talk only of that," says Perrineau. "But beware of that interpretation: Paris and Lyons are not France, and Jacques Chirac is far from dead." One possible result of a rightist debacle could be to jolt the divided conservative parties to unite behind Chirac next year. "Today," says Perrineau, "the only man who can bridge the divisions on the right is Chirac. He has the capacity to emerge as the great unifier." But if the war is not lost for Chirac...