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...election of Socialist François Mitterrand as President of France had been predicted by the CIA, but not by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Thus, when President Reagan returned from Mother's Day at Camp David, he found the State Department's draft of the obligatory telegram of congratulations too stiff. Not delivered until the morning after the election, it did contain a gracious Reagan touch: "Only those who have devoted years-long dedication to winning the presidency can fully appreciate what today's reaffirmation of the democratic process in France represents." But the Administration does...
Another factor was the steady rise of Socialist strength since Mitterrand took over the party leadership in 1971, and the corresponding decline of the Communists. While Mitterrand won 25.8% of the first-round presidential votes, Communist Leader Georges Marchais took only a humiliating 15.3%, a quarter less than the longtime Communist share of the electorate. As a result of that diminished standing, it seemed safe to vote for the left, for the first time since the Fifth Republic was founded in 1958, without handing the Communists a predominant role in government. At the same time, Marchais instructed his own disciplined...
...million Jews in Poland once. They shared a 900-year heritage, a richly diverse culture. Some served in Marshal Pilsudski's army, fighting for a free Poland and helping to repel the Red Army after the First World War. Some fervently believed in Zionism: others would die for the socialist Bund: still others thought "Nothing that didn't happen before should happen now." Some were orthodox, some reformed, most were poor, a few wealthy: many clustered in the big cities and universities, some lived in villages, and a few stayed on the farm. Some came to America, apparently taking...
...balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism is nothing new). The Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling the Promised Land. Hassidim responded to the Jewish interwar political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold the values of the Diaspora--the Jewish dispersion--and promote...
...Pope's voluble remonstrances on the issue (though he has been careful not to refer to the referendums themselves) have incited a wave of criticism from pro-choice advocates. Bettino Craxi, head of the Italian Socialist Party, charges that John Paul is leading a "revival of intolerance, improper interference and excessive zeal on the part of the Roman Catholic Church over the abortion issue...