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...with a broad coalition of "progressive" forces, ranging from reform-minded communists and Socialists to ecologists, centrists and human-rights activists. Rocard was pronouncing the death of President Francois Mitterrand's scandal-tarnished Socialist Party, which faces almost sure defeat in this month's parliamentary elections, and laying the groundwork for his own 1995 presidential bid. Mitterrand, of course, has dismissed the idea. But other Socialists and independents are reacting positively. On Wednesday, Brice Lalonde, head of one of the country's two ecologist parties, voiced interest in joining Rocard's grand scheme. The ecologists, who may command...
...thought it would lay down the groundwork for better relations in the future and in that respect it was a success," said Hillel Chair Jeremy A. Dauber '95, who added that the peaceful, crisis-free backdrop to the discussion will help re-define race relations...
Another plus: to the extent a President needs to persuade Congress and the public to take tough medicine (Perot's point), and of the need not to kill the golden goose (Bush's), Bush and Perot have helped lay the groundwork. We certainly don't need to "pay off the debt," as Perot keeps saying. It's no more unhealthy for the U.S. to have debt than for a family to have a mortgage or a business to have bank loans. But we do have to trim the deficit soon, so the debt begins growing slower than the economy...
Negative ads still abound, but they are generally straightforward and issue- oriented. One purpose of these attack ads, campaign insiders say, is to lay the groundwork for points the candidates can expound on later in the debates. Statistics (however dubious) are everywhere. Fittingly, Ross Perot's first half-hour ad, which aired twice last week, was a no-nonsense lecture on the sorry state of the U.S. economy, filled to the brim with charts and graphs -- not the kind of fare prime-time viewers would be expected to sit through. Yet it drew an impressive 12.2 rating (representing 11.36 million...
Laying the Groundwork...