Word: centriste
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...Still, there were unexpected signs of voter uneasiness with the prospect of a Thatcher landslide. A poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) showed the Tories with a comfortable though dwindling eleven-point lead over Labor. Yet the survey also indicated an upsurge in the fortunes of the centrist Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance, mostly at Thatcher's expense. In a week the level of support for the Conservatives dropped from 51% to 43%, while the popularity of the new alliance jumped from 15% to 23%. Labor declined only marginally, from...
Soon Rosovsky, a centrist by temperament, will no longer have to deal with such thorny issues from the hot-seat. The life of a scholar that awaits him seem to hold considerable appeal...
...comparison, the centrist Social Democratic Party-Liberal Alliance was less visible on the hustings, though still hopeful of re-establishing itself as a strong third force. Like some of his colleagues, S.D.P. Leader Roy Jenkins, 62, was concentrating on defending his own marginal seat in Glasgow. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 45, who has a safe seat, made up for Jenkins' absence, gathering mileage for the Alliance as he traveled the country in his colorful campaign "battlebus." "What chance is there that a new Britain can be built by the old parties," he asked a Scottish audience...
Even Social Democratic Party Leader Roy Jenkins, who would become Prime Minister in the unlikely event of a victory by the centrist S.D.P./Liberal Alliance, dropped his usually temperate mien to blast Thatcher. Jenkins acidly compared her new Tory manifesto to Field Marshal Douglas Haig's message after the disastrous Battle of the Somme in 1916: "Ground gained negligible, casualties intolerable, but press...
...behind the Administration's often caustic rhetoric has been a relatively steady and moderate approach to Central America that is generally consistent with that taken by the Carter Administration. The State Department has worked to foster centrist democratic institutions in El Salvador and prodded the right-leaning government there into making some reforms. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders attempted to negotiate with Nicaragua an end to that regime's support for the Salvadoran rebels in return for U.S. aid and a pledge of nonintervention. His overtures were spurned by the Nicaraguans...