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...Socialists at least could take some consolation from the continuing division among the three leading opposition figures. Former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a conservative centrist, was sagging in the popular-opinion sweepstakes (with 8%). Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a neo-Gaullist, was still in the lead but slipping (with 37%). Only former Finance Minister Raymond Barre, a champion of austerity himself, seemed to be gaining in popularity (up 5% in the past month, to 20%). For Mitterrand, who is waiting for the fruits of austerity to help the Socialists in parliamentary elections two years from...
Around noon a crowd began gathering in front of the huge neo-Gothic Parliament building facing the Danube, intending to present Premier Nagy with a petition demanding the withdrawal of all Soviet troops. Soviet tanks and a phalanx of security police blocked all entrances to the building. Trigger-sensitive young Russian tankists became unnerved by the milling crowd around them and began firing indiscriminately into the mass of unarmed people. In a few minutes hundreds of men and women were lying dead or wounded on the ground...
...four p.m. one afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They were going to see a Eugene O'Neill play-an important one. The play, Mourning Becomes Electra, would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours...
...percent of 17.6 million voting-age Afro-Americans are not registered (compared to 34 percent of voting-age whites) and in the South (whose electoral votes will be crucial in 1984) the situation is worse still. Voter apathy among Blacks is tantamount to political suicide in today's neo-conservative era, as seen in Alabama in 1980 where Reagan won by a mere 17,462 votes while some 272,390 Black folks could not vote because they were unregistered...
...King Jr., seeks with his candidacy to nurture new notions of the politically possible among Afro-Americans. Old-guard Democrats--assured in the past of Black votes due to Republican neglect of the Black community--can no longer be allowed to pander to the anti-Black features of some neo-conservative white voters without paying a price. New-guard right-wing Republicans can no longer be allowed to reverse federal responsibility for basic needs of Blacks in areas like voting rights, food stamps, affirmative action, job training, and unemployment, without paying a price. In giving Afro-Americans...