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Most intriguing, however, was the 34% abstention rate in the first round, a figure unequaled in the history of France's Fifth Republic. Clearly, the electorate was weary of politics after three trips to the polls in six weeks and almost a year of campaign maneuvering. In the presidential balloting, the voters had thoroughly surprised the pollsters, pundits and politicians. Few had expected Mitterrand's solid 54%-to-46% victory over Chirac, who resigned as Premier following his presidential defeat...
...live in Communist countries. For years the Vatican has been quietly working with world Orthodoxy, including the Russians, to settle various long-standing obstacles to reconciliation. One of the nastiest is the existence of pockets of Catholics loyal to Rome within countries in which the Orthodox predominate. The newest round of discussions on these Eastern Rite Catholics will be held next week at the New Valamo monastery in Finland...
...Turner was hardly known in France and Henry Moore was only just beginning to enter collections outside Britain, Hockney has the kind of celebrity usually reserved for film stars but rarely visited on serious artists -- Picasso and Warhol being the big exceptions. Merely to see his blond hair and round glasses across a crowded room, let alone hear his Yorkshire voice droning unstoppably on about Picasso, cubism and his own photography, turns the knees of collectors to jelly. When Actor Steve Martin pays $330,000 at auction for a medium-good, medium-size drawing of Andy Warhol by Hockney...
...time for Northrop. The company, long a target of Government probes into bribery charges, is under pressure from the Pentagon to improve the workmanship on its $46 billion Stealth-bomber project and to speed up the delivery of guidance devices for its MX missile. Now Northrop must answer a round of new questions about one of its old mistakes...
After losing the final round last week, Jackson praised the nature of Dukakis' surprisingly successful campaign -- but said he would remain in the race and fight for delegates not formally bound to other candidates. That tactic had some precedent, but Jackson's demand for first-refusal rights to the vice-presidential nomination did not. It was a noticeable hardening of his responses on the subject. Earlier in the campaign, he dismissed the second slot as irrelevant. More recently, he argued that his strong showing had earned him "consideration...