Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontational style of politics. Last week, though, as a desultory legislative campaign suddenly turned into the traditionally bitter left-right duel, Mitterrand decided it was time to intervene on behalf of the embattled left. "I ask Frenchwomen and Frenchmen to confirm the vote they delivered in the second round of the presidential election last May 8," he declared at his weekly Cabinet meeting. "To carry out my mission, I need a stable majority...
...presidential plunge into the campaign reflected real Socialist fears that the French electorate, apparently in an unpredictable mood, was capable of anything -- including the return of a conservative majority. The Socialists, who initially expected a landslide victory on the strength of Mitterrand's electoral momentum, faltered in the first round of balloting on June 5. The party won only 37.5% of the vote, compared with 40.5% for the conservative alliance comprising the neo-Gaullist Rassemblement pour la Republique and the center-right Union pour la Democratie Francaise. The Communists, written off after their 6.8% score in the presidential race, bounced...
Dlamini calls her parents three times a week. Her roommate, Nandi Ndlovu, a 17-year-old with a round face like a happy Buddha, phones home nearly every night. "I can't do otherwise," she shrugs. Enfolded in a pink terry-cloth bathrobe, she curls up in an armchair and lets the computerized pages of the phone bill cascade to the floor: $3,967.78 worth of calls in two months. In the kitchenette, the remains of some ipapa, South African-style cornmeal bread cooked here in the wee, homesick hours after the show, lie among empty cans of grape soda...
From his Spaso House residence, the President tells Hugh Sidey of the wonder he felt in his remarkable odyssey to Red Square. -- Beneath the summit ceremony was a more subtle form of posturing. -- What lies behind the impasse on arms control. -- Nancy vs. Raisa, Round 4. -- Reagan gets a nyet, not from Gorbachev but from a Russian clergyman. See NATION...
...minister's announcement came in the midst of campaigning for the first round of two-round legislative elections in France and triggered instant counterattacks from conservatives. "I find it absolutely lamentable that they want to use the army as a scapegoat," said Jacques Toubon, secretary-general of the Rassemblement pour la Republique, headed by former Premier Jacques Chirac, who authorized the rescue operation before he left office in early...