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...advance to the second round of the French presidential election: An unusually high number of voters stayed home, and a lot of dissention among the voters of the left. Nearly 30 percent of the electorate stayed away from Sunday's poll, and their abstention is believed to have hurt Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin more than any of his rivals. A large stay-away also means that the results were skewed to the more ideologically motivated voters, who tend to favor more extreme parties...
...returned to power. Crucifix in hand, he gave an impassioned speech promising to tone down his rhetoric and open new lines of communication with all sectors of society. He appeased the national oil company by removing some of his leftist appointees, and he hinted at modifying some of the socialist laws he has enacted...
...characters share a common spirit. JFK, Kit, Falin and the rest feel the same feelings about the same issues. Where is the hardcore right-winger amid the peace societies and socialist social clubs Kit meets? It is easy to highlight essential similarities when there are only surface differences. These are all familiar characters, partly because their types are so worked-over in Hollywood mythologies: the concerned parents, the suicidal adolescent, her mentor the mysterious, wise...
...faith in one-issue, corporatist movements like farmers and doctors. Under the Fifth Republic introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, the President is meant to be both the guardian of the nation and its executive leader. But the current contest between the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac and the Socialist Lionel Jospin only emphasizes the gulf between the real challenges facing France and the public skepticism that any politician can solve them. The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed. Unemployment is rising. So is fear of crime. In Europe...
...pedantic Jospin, 64, is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist apparatchik who is particularly proud of having restricted the hours the French can work to 35 a week. He was already first secretary of the Socialist Party when it first held power way back in 1981. He says that, while he is a socialist, his program will not be socialist - which is only pragmatic of him, since the outcome will be decided by centrist voters. But a vote for Jospin is still a vote for a state that takes more than half the national income in tax and welfare payments...