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...threatening military drills in Fujian, the Chinese province nearest Taiwan, and maintains that Taiwan should view the Hong Kong handover as a blueprint for its own future. The rising tensions between Beijing and Taiwan have created a diplomatic difficulty for Hong Kong, which is stumped on where to seat the Taiwan delegation attending the handover ceremonies. Taiwanese officials who were invited to the bash have refused to be seated next to the mainland Chinese delegation, a position they feel would suggest their downgrading to the status of a Chinese province. But Hong Kong officials stand to lose either...
...leader, now wields de facto power there. (His wife Catherine officially ran in his place after he was disqualified for overspending on his campaign. ) Megret, a cold technocrat who hopes to succeed the aging Le Pen as party leader, was set back by his failure to win a parliamentary seat. But he is determined to make Vitrolles a showcase both for his own administrative skills and for the Front's ideology. Says Megret: "We are winning the battle of ideas...
...list of books ordered by the municipal library, blackballing "leftist" writers in favor of far-right authors. Marignane's mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat this month, forbade organizers of the local book fair to give a literary award to Jewish writer Marek Halter, claiming his work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front's municipal governments are striking back with tracts, demonstrations and information campaigns. "To fight the National...
...week's election dramatized a new deterioration in Canadian political life. The new Parliament is more regionally Balkanized than at any other time in the country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time. Quebec...
...Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue he had had delivered...