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...other circumstances, Mario Scares might have savored his victory. He and his Socialist Party had just been returned to power after five years in the wilderness. Their electoral success came nine years to the day after the overthrow of a dictatorship that Scares had opposed for most of his adult life. But in Portugal, winning elections is no cause for rejoicing. The Socialist Party, Scares glumly declared, "holds the hopes of millions of Portuguese without feeling triumphant...
...threatened to resign his caretaker post if Scares has not formed a government in 30 days. Moreover, even if a new coalition is patched together, no one would place bets on its longevity. Yet the stakes this time are high. As Scares put it last week, "The Socialist Party cannot fail in its mandate. That would endanger the very regime." Translation: if the Socialists and Social Democrats do not come to terms, there is nothing left...
...nation. Throughout the parliamentary election campaign, Bruno Kreisky, 72, had made himself the central issue. He warned that he would "take his hat" and step aside if he failed to win an absolute majority. The move seemed astute, at least for a leader so unassailably popular that his Socialist Party's campaign slogan in 1975 had been "Kreisky- Who Else...
First France's Socialist government outraged the country by decreeing this spring that vacationers could each spend no more than about $425 abroad. Thousands of French travel agents took to the streets for banner-waving protests that helped force the government to ease the restriction. Now President Francois Mitterrand's Cabinet has raised outcries by proposing a ban on slot machines. The move, which the French National Assembly is expected to approve by midsummer, also puts a five-game limit on the number of turns that can be won on video games and pinball machines. Pouted one newspaper...
...Socialist government holds that he machines are a source of endless trouble. Officials say gangsters supply most of the slots to bar owners and then rake off half of the take. Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who first proposed the ban, alls the machines "the milk cow of the underworld...