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...Lenoir has made a habit of jumping gender barriers. Now she's bridging political divides as well. Despite links with Socialist leaders dating back to the late President François Mitterrand, the leftist Lenoir was named France's Minister of European Affairs last week by new conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. The nomination of Lenoir surprised many on both ends of the political spectrum. But her appointment was described by some observers as proof of Raffarin's determination to assemble a government attentive to - and comprising - all segments of French social and political life. "I think...
Meyssan's scenario is goofy. How would the French have reacted to a crazy theory that the terrorist bombings in Paris during the '80s were the result of a French right-wing conspiracy to shake up the Socialist government? The French would have called it a ridiculous fantasy. As a French citizen, I feel ashamed that such lunatic propositions are taken seriously in France. THIERRY COURTES DE CARVALHO Rio de Janeiro...
...name of a war victim was removed from a plaque in Memorial Church following the discovery that he had been a German. A Class of 1952 marshal was accused of being a socialist...
Although Soviet critics viewed Harvard as a bastion of right-wing militarism, many in America worried about its spiritual collapse under a socialist threat...
...Polls indicate that first-round voting on June 9 will qualify National Front candidates for the June 16 run-offs in over 200 of France's 577 legislative races - way up from the 1997 level of 75. Such triangulaire battles will pit the National Front against rivals from the Socialist Party led by François Hollande and the rightist groupings under the newly re-elected President Jacques Chirac. But a strong showing from the National Front could split the vote for the right, allowing the Socialists to capture parliament. That would saddle Chirac with another five years of cohabitation...