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...southern France Sunday, raising concerns that its xenophobic message resonates with a growing number of recession-plagued French. Catherine Megret, who is married to the party's chief ideologue and second-in-command Bruno Megret, was elected mayor of the Marseilles suburb Vitrolles (pop. 39,000). She beat incumbent Socialist Jean-Jacques Anglade as a stand-in for her husband who had been disqualified in an earlier ballot. The NF already rules three other cities in southern France: Toulon, Orange and Marignane, another Marseilles suburb. Record unemployment and a large North-African immigrant population made all cities susceptible...
...Korean War. If true, the move would mark a significant turnaround for South Korea, which previously has refused to link food aid to negotiations. Any aid carries painful political baggage for North Korea, which was forced to back down earlier this week from its official "socialist paradise" ideology with a public admission that severe grain harvest shortfalls were causing "temporary food problems." Relief workers warn that North Korea is headed toward a famine which would surpass even the 1985 Ethiopian food crisis, with potential victims numbering in the tens of millions...
SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarians are finding out that democracy can be an unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered...
Bulgarians voted for all the recent Socialist governments, of course, including the present one. But 1996 was their wake-up year, as the country neared bankruptcy and more than a dozen banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
Even though Stoyanov is mostly a figurehead, his landslide election last November was read as a referendum against the Socialist government. What has to be put right, he says, searching for a compromise, is "not just a matter of mismanagement" but of "almost criminal, Mafia-like forms of governing the country." Stoyanov admits that if he cannot get the parties together, he will be legally bound to let Interior Minister Dobrev form a government. That could turn the next referendum over to the angry masses on the streets...