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...turned too easy on Communism, or in some cases too hard on social programs, while he remained the archetypal cold war liberal, determined that the U.S. spend generously on guns and butter. "I don't worry about ideologies," he said. "I've been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative." In 1972 and 1976, he was a credible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...order to reduce their casualties, started late last week, leaving behind it an inevitable power vacuum. The area being evacuated in the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut is shared by the Druze and Christians, who have been alternately allies and enemies for centuries. Anticipating the Israeli move, socialist Druze and right-wing Christian militiamen have engaged in escalating clashes for the past ten months...
French President Francois Mitterrand's plan to cut his country's unemployment rate seemed engagingly simple. If employees worked fewer hours, jobs could be spread among more people. Mitterrand's Socialist administration has thus pared France's 40-hour work week to 39 hours since taking office more than two years ago, and it plans to trim it to 35 hours by 1985. The government has also given the French a fifth week of annual vacation and has lowered the legal retirement age to 60 for workers who have labored 371/2 years...
...French capital during the August doldrums, when hardly a Parisian can be found on the streets, or that he drafted his letter on stationery from the luxury Hotel Prince de Galles, far from the scene of student riots last spring. Perkins' message that life in France under Socialist President Francois Mitterrand is a "nightmare" only confirmed the worst suspicions of the 300,000 Republican loyalists who received the letter as part of a fund-raising drive for senatorial candidates...
French President François Mitterrand's decision also provoked a test of wills on two fronts far from Central Africa. In Paris, Mitterrand's Communist partners and even some members of his Socialist Party criticized the extensive deployment of French troops into Africa as a throwback to the "neocolonialist" policies of Mitterrand's predecessors. Members of the center-right opposition complained that the President was doing too little, too late. U.S. officials, meanwhile, took umbrage when Mitterrand charged in a newspaper interview that the U.S. had sent its AW ACS surveillance aircraft to the region without...