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...democracy." Since 1983, when Pinochet loosened some of the restrictions on political activity, the moderates have been struggling to find a way of persuading the dictator to yield to a civilian electoral process. The latest plan was offered in August 1985 by an impressive coalition of eleven centrist and rightist parties called the National Accord, which was put together by Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno. But Pinochet rejected out of hand the Accord's request for elections, the return of exiles and freedom of the press...
That was undoubtedly true, but also without precedent is the delicate arrangement known as cohabitation, by which the leftist President and the rightist Premier are sharing the task of ruling France. Under the Fifth Republic, which was established in 1958, governing powers are split between the two posts. That was not a problem as long as both men came from the same party. But after the conservative coalition won the March elections and took over the Cabinet, opposing politicians had to start ruling together...
When Felipe Gonzalez Marquez's Socialists swept to power in 1982, a jubilant crowd of 4,000 supporters held a raucous celebration outside the party's election headquarters in Madrid. Fearing a violent rightist reaction, Gonzalez urged his supporters to keep cool, saying, "We don't want any saviors with machine guns." Some went to bed that night fearing that the army might try to seize power...
...young men, an American and a Latin American, have been jailed by the police of an unnamed country's rightist dictatorship. The crime: distribution of subversive leaflets. In their cell, they converse clumsily, united less by ideology than by a rapturous and surprisingly sophisticated passion for literature. Yet at every turn they misunderstand each other, responding to received images from each other's popular culture rather than to the actual person across the room. The American is a wandering would-be writer. He cheerily acknowledges that he knows no Spanish and thus has not even read the flyers they handed...
Less than a month after its narrow victory in national elections, France's new center-rightist coalition led by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac began last week to reshape the country's economy. First it managed to wring out of the European Community an agreement to devalue the franc by the equivalent of 6% against the West German mark. Then the new Prime Minister announced that he would denationalize up to 57 banks and companies, many of which had been nationalized before the Socialists came to power five years...