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Take the birth rate. Almost any plan to raise living standards would include government support of birth control, but Mexico is torn between its quasi-socialist political traditions and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (not to mention the Latin tradition of machismo...
...announcement triggered a week of political drama that led within days to the collapse of France's fragile and often acrimonious "union of the left." After a series of all-night marathon discussions, the Communist Party announced that it was quitting Mitterrand's three-year-old Socialist administration. "We do not have the moral right to allow millions of women, men and disappointed youths to believe that we can meet their expectations within the present government," declared Communist Spokesman Pierre Juquin. "We refuse to deceive them, as we refuse to deceive ourselves...
...change comes at a critical time for Mitterrand, who was elected in 1981 on a wave of support for Socialist-led change. For the past two years, the President has been forced to administer draconian economic medicine, including higher taxes, currency controls and widespread layoffs in ailing industries. As a result, unemployment has risen to about 10% (vs. 7.2% when Mitterrand was elected), and the President's popularity rating has sunk to an all-time low of 35%. In last month's elections for the European Parliament, the Socialist share of the vote dropped to 20.8% from...
Under the French system, however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that...
...death, his unassuming, English-speaking son was serving as assistant to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Stockholm conference on European security. His new assignment, which needs formal Greek approval, may be considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a NATO member, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has opposed the alliance's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Greece recently provoked Washington's ire by describing the U.S. as "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." Papandreou has also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature...