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...extremist parties on both the right and the left. In France, the antiimmigrant, law-and-order National Front, a far-right organization led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former paratrooper, won 11% of the vote. The chief victims in France were the Communists, who have four seats in Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Cabinet. They dropped to 11.3% of the vote, their lowest showing since 1932 and the most crushing blow in a long decline. In West Germany, it was the surge of the environmentalist, anti-NATO Green Party that shocked the political establishment by winning...
...France had expected Mitterrand's Socialist-Communist alliance to survive the elections without some damage. In opinion polls and local elections, the government had steadily been slipping since it came to power in 1981 with an overwhelming legislative majority. No sounding, however, had warned that the Socialists would get a mere 20.8% of the total. Even counting the Communist votes, the left's combined total of 32% could only be interpreted as a stunning rejection of the government...
...next day the summit leaders scrutinized the seven paragraphs of the values statement for a full hour and 15 minutes. The socialist French and the conservative British, for example, debated at length over a draft statement that said political and economic freedom are fundamentally interdependent...
Using the powers available only to El Caudillo's chosen successor, Juan Carlos moved cautiously by approaching the moderates of Spain. He slowly replaced Franco's highest appointees with what he called "the civilized right." He invited leaders of the outlawed Communist and Socialist parties to dinner. Assistant Professor of Government Terry Karl, a specialist in that process, says. "It's rare to find a figure that commands that kind of respect who will throw his weight behind the democratic transition...
Donald S. Shepard '69 left Harvard and entered the Harvard-Africa Volunteer Program. He wanted to teach high school in socialist Tanzania but was denied a work permit. When his work permit was denied--he believes because he came from capitalist America--Shepard says he realized that "unbridled idealism was not what the world was looking for," that reformers need to work within existing organizations that have their own rules and procedures. After the experience. "I went into less idealistic, less grassroots sort of activity," he adds...