Word: socialistic
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...Socialist president pledged to fight the anguish, difficulty and uncertainty facing many French people...
...television lights glared, the survivors of the first round of France's presidential election faced each other last week in a 2-hr. 20-min. debate watched by some 30 million citizens. Billed as the high point of the electoral campaign, the duel between Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Neo- Gaullist Premier Jacques Chirac produced no clear-cut winner. The dislike was almost palpable, however, between the two men who had been cohabiting, in French parlance, as government leaders for the past two years. During an exchange in which each candidate attempted to suggest that the other was soft...
...second-round duel with Chirac got under way, Mitterrand's task was still daunting. He had to push Chirac as far toward Le Pen as possible in the hope that many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
Describing himself as "a son of a dictatorship born out of the Spanish Civil War," Gonzalez, a leader of the Spanish Socialist Party, said his nation is still working to recover from the "repression of creativity and imagination" under General Francisco Franco...
...arrived truth to Charles de Gaulle's imperious prophecy that "every Frenchman was, is or one day will be a Gaullist." Mitterrand, an opponent of De Gaulle for the ten years of the general's presidency, also presented himself as an above-the-fray candidate, rarely mentioning the word Socialist and allowing himself to be described by Socialist Party Chairman Lionel Jospin as a leader who acquired popular support "far beyond the normal limits of his political camp." Chirac, with more ideological claim to the De Gaulle mantle than either of the other candidates, but too young to talk...