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FRANCE Early Campaigning The news was no surprise, but the timing was: President Jacques Chirac announced he would seek a second term in office, weeks sooner than expected. Observers said the early declaration was a bid to gain advantage before corruption allegations cost him further support. Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin is also expected to be a candidate for the two-stage presidential election beginning April...
...kickback scheme allegedly set up by President Jacques Chirac's RPR party. So Schuller's sudden return last week must have been a shock for Chirac, who is set to run for re-election. Schuller says he wants to "set the record straight," but the RPR suspects a Socialist plot. Either way, it was bad timing for Chirac; polls show him losing his lead over likely Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin, who has played up his "Mr. Clean" image...
...opposed to independence strongly identify themselves with Serbia. If there is a referendum and the pro-independence parties win by a narrow margin, as some opinion surveys suggest, the no campaigners might not accept the result. "We are a peaceful party," warns Dragan Koprivica, spokesman for the pro-Yugoslav Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, "but people are unpredictable...
...avoid: finding tough but necessary solutions to explosive problems. In the late '80s, as chief government negotiator in New Caledonia, Blanc brokered a peace accord that ended years of bloody separatist violence. Later, as head of the Paris public-transport authority, he battled unruly unions and a waffling Socialist government to end an era of incessant, paralyzing strikes. As president of Air France from 1993-97, Blanc brought the airline from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability - and partial privatization - by alternatively cajoling and compelling rebellious staff to accept his tough-love restructuring program. Now, in a move that could...
...European Parliament, M.E.P.s chose Pat Cox, an Irish Liberal Democrat, to replace French conservative Nicole Fontaine. A former television journalist, Cox stood as an independent, promising reforms aimed at making the assembly more effective. "We are building the democratic part of Europe's future," he said after defeating Scottish socialist, David Martin, in three rounds of voting...