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...vote in the second round runoff, the biggest presidential majority of the past two decades. But Chirac's scheme went out the window two weeks ago when fresh polls showed him and Jospin running neck and neck. Chirac's dilemma was complicated by the return of Didier Schuller, who gave himself up to magistrates investigating alleged corruption by Chirac's Rally for the Republic (rpr) party...
Chirac's candidacy declaration was overshadowed by questions related to the Schuller case. "I have never heard of this affair," Chirac said, his leg bouncing nervously under the table. "I may have happened to be in the same place as him, but I didn't know him personally." The following day, Le Monde published a photograph of Chirac - then mayor of Paris - shaking hands with Schuller at city hall. According to a poll published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien, 67% of people found Chirac's denial unconvincing...
...Schuller - who ran the housing department in the rpr-controlled Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine from 1989 to '94 - fled France in 1995 after a bungled attempt to intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor...
...FRANCE Blast from the Past When Didier Schuller fled into exile in 1995, he was under investigation for his role in a kickback scheme allegedly set up by President Jacques Chirac's RPR party. So Schuller's sudden return last week must have been a shock for Chirac, who is set to run for re-election. Schuller says he wants to "set the record straight," but the RPR suspects a Socialist plot. Either way, it was bad timing for Chirac; polls show him losing his lead over likely Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin, who has played up his "Mr. Clean" image...
...jail all because it doesn't like what you put in your pipe, and I'll show you a government to fear and loathe. Whether it's pulling over suspicious-looking motorists or gunning down airborne missionaries, the drug war is a menace to freedom and security. JOHN SCHULLER Morrow...