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...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...
...These last alternatives have been denied consistently by former Socialist leader Felipe González, Prime Minister from 1982 until his defeat by the incumbent José María Aznar in 1996, and various inquiries have not found grounds to charge González with a single offense. Not so his former Interior Minister, José Barrionuevo, or his former State Security Director, Rafael Vera; both were convicted over the first GAL-claimed crime, a 1983 kidnapping...
...jailing of such big fish - both of whom are free pending applications for pardons, along with the conviction of almost a dozen others, members of the Guardia Civil and former Socialist officials in the autonomous Basque region - has been a propaganda gift for ETA. It has also served to convince a significant number of moderate Basques that the central government still wants to crush their cultural identity, just as Franco did. Woodworth writes that not only did the dirty war fail to destroy ETA, but the investigations - or lack thereof - into its members and backers provided "rich material...