Bad News for French Socialists

Toulouse, known as the cité rose because of the color of its walls, was the palest pink in October as the French Socialists held their congress there, the last before their inevita

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The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show

Most French voters, judging by opinion polls, are bored with the current presidential campaign. No wonder.

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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Slogans sometimes succeed in conveying the mood of a period.

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The Gladiators

In order to perpetuate capitalism as the final stage of history, Washington has less Hegelian means at its disposal than Francis Fukuyama suggested.

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West and East

In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ecu, before the end

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Yeltsin’s Round

Nothing is over, not even the counting; given the prevailing mood of mutual suspicion there will be plenty of disputes over the final result.

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Yeltsin, the Lame-Duck Czar

Six months after the storming of Russia’s Parliament, Boris Yeltsin and his backers, domestic and foreign, must have second thoughts about the wisdom of the coup that climaxed in a massacre.

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Historic Moment

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‘Solidarity Will Never Die’

If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.

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What Price Gloire

The only free Kanaks are dead ones, the outgoing French government might have argued.

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