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...weeks ago, Gingrich blamed "socialist" on newspaper editorial boards for promoting ideas "that only make sense if people believe that government's good and the free market is bad." Gingrich claimed that these "socialists" were the "mortal enemy" of Republicans and their agenda. His statement not only echoes McCarthyism, but also reflects the simplistic conservative view of good and bad. Of course, this idea is not new; Republicans are still fond of quoting Ronald Reagan's statement that "government is the problem." But like too many tenets of conservatism, the crusade against "big government" is grossly hypocritical...
Current attacks on affirmative action programs are merely attempts to divide and subjugate American workers, said a speaker at a talk last night defending affirmative action sponsored by the International Socialist Organization...
...agency ordered one of the accused officers to leave France, and was planning to move a second officer. But the cover was blown on the affair by French presidential-election politics, say officials in both countries. Once a sure bet to succeed Socialist President Francois Mitterrand in the April 23 election, Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has recently seen his high poll ratings nose-dive. His campaign was badly damaged by revelations that Pasqua, a Balladur supporter, authorized an illegal wiretap last December on the father-in-law of a judge investigating an illegal campaign-funding scheme in Pasqua...
With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...Socialists' troubles began long before the current campaign. They have been reeling since March 1993, when the conservatives crushed them in legislative elections and forced Mitterrand to share power with a hostile conservative majority. From that point on, the party, which has lost nearly half its members since 1981, has been in free fall. The low point was a dismal 14% showing in last June's European parliamentary elections, which prompted party leader Michel Rocard's resignation and thereby eliminated the most obvious Socialist presidential candidate...