Word: socialists
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...politics had not changed, though, just the level of action. Saffran, who served as the head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), says his organization was considered by many to be one of the more conservative political groups on campus...
...first glance, last week's 287-217 parliamentary vote granting the island of Corsica increased autonomy may look like another exercise in partisan politics. France's leftist majority dutifully supported the government of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, while the conservative opposition just as predictably snubbed it. In reality, however, the bill is causing division even within political parties and may set off significant changes in France's highly centralized governing structure...
...humbling of Bossi prompted audible exhalations of relief across Europe, but the center-left parties and governments that currently dominate the E.U. remained on their guard. France's Socialist Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine warned that his government would be "attentive and, if necessary, vigilant" toward the new Italian administration, while Prime Minister Lionel Jospin pointedly refrained from making any declaration at all. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, issued a notably cool statement, saying his government "took note" of the Italian results and "respected the decision" of the voters. Britain's center-left Prime Minister...
...boost to center-right governments, now outnumbered 12-3 in the E.U. French President Jacques Chirac treated Berlusconi to an effusive 20-minute phone call, while Chirac's Rally for the Republic Party cheered his "unequivocal victory" as "a powerful aspiration for change" and "an alternative to socialist immobility." Thomas Goppel, general secretary of Germany's opposition Christian Social Union, said the Italian vote was "ringing in the end of the governmental power of the left camp in Europe." Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, a longtime personal friend and political ally of Berlusconi, predicted that...
...Political observers do not expect leaving the GOP to hurt Jeffords? reputation in Vermont. His constituents, who rank among the nation?s most progressive voters - their other Senator, Patrick Leahy is a liberal Democrat while their Congressman, Bernie Sanders, is an Independent Socialist - are reportedly reacting positively to news of Jeffords? defection...