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That would keep him in power, regardless of who takes the presidency, and would allow him to amend the constitution to enable him to run for a second term, or call a referendum on whether his present term should be extended. There was never any doubt that supporters of Mr Aristide, deposed in a 1991 coup, would romp home.Even the New York Times, while criticising a report by the Carter Center of election observers as “unnecessarily alarmist”, said in an editorial this week: “The idea of having run-off elections in some races that technically do not require it – such as the bitterly contested election for mayor of Port-au-Prince – has merit.”How come? The incumbent mayor, Evans Paul, a man long groomed by the Americans to take over from Mr Aristide as president, lost by an overwhelming 45 per cent to 18 to a folk singer, Manno Charlemagne, who had Mr Aristide’s tacit support. They called for cancellation of the results, and then threatened to boycott the second round.In the US, politicians who were unable to point to organised fraud, focused on the “shambles” of the electoral process, saying many people did not get to vote and that the elections should be rerun. Yet there have been few street protests in Haiti and the feeling there is largely one of satisfaction that “the people have spoken”. It seemed set to sweep the rest in the second round planned for 6 August, for constituencies where no candidate won more than 50 per cent.Although feared election violence never materialised and observers saw little evidence of fraud, opposition politicians, many supported by anti-Aristide US lobbyists, cried foul.

Mr Aristide’s Lavalas (Torrent) platform swept the majority of town halls, parliament and Senate seats. Since the intervention was described as President Bill Clinton’s only foreign policy success to date, Haiti has become a key policy issue in the US in the run-up to next year’s elections to the White House.
Take Haiti’s local and parliamentary elections on 25 June. Ministers yesterday reiterated their commitment to submit any Golan agreement to a referendum.. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti must have known he would have to pay a price for the US military intervention that restored him to power last year Now, the price is clear. In return for peace, Syria demands the return of all the territory captured by Israel in 1967.A counter-argument floated last night by the Shas leader, Aryeh Deri, suggested that the Knesset vote signalled to Mr Assad that a Golan agreement had to command a national consensus.Mr Deri said he favoured territorial concessions, but he had to be satisfied that Israel would not be exposing itself to danger by withdrawing. Israel had gone to war without a majority of 70 MPs, he insisted and it could make peace without a majority of 70.The United States ambassador, Martin Indyk, had earlier warned a number of waverers that the law would deter the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad, from negotiating with Mr Rabin It would undermine American mediation efforts. Only a last- minute vote against the bill by another Yi’ud MP, Alex Goldfarb, a deputy minister, prevented its passage.
The right-wing Likud opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, said afterwards: “This proves that Mr Rabin has no majority for giving up the Golan Heights, in the Knesset or among the people.” The Prime Minister dismissed the proposed law as “nonsense”.

So did the six Shas (Sephardi religious) MPs, who normally support the Prime Minister from outside. One of the three MPs from Yi’ud, a breakaway right-wing faction now in the government, voted for it. The division underlined the precarious state of his coalition. Three rebel backbenchers from Mr Rabin’s Labour Party sponsored the legislation. MPs voted 59-59 on first reading of a law that would have required a majority of 70 in the 120- seat Knesset for any agreement to withdraw from the Golan Heights. The Speaker declared the bill defeated, and Mr Rabin could breathe again.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, won a narrow victory in parliament yesterday for his peace negotiations with Syria. How can you control who enters and leaves a Metro station without crippling the public transport system? But, perhaps more awareness of security will follow the atrocity.. I have been roundly told off at Heathrow for straying only a few feet from my bags.But it is hard to see how even the most draconian security measures could have prevented Tuesday’s bomb About 45,000 people use St-Michel station each day. No checks seems to be made on the bags that are deposited.Of the many hotels I have used in France, I have had to register in only a few. At mainline stations and in airport lounges, people happily leave their luggage unguarded while browsing or having coffee.

Only the streets around the Elysee seem to be no-go areas for parking Left-luggage offices function at every railway station. Security at the British and United States embassies is infinitely more rigorous; in the Parisian context, it always seemed a reminder of a different age – maybe no longer.General security is similarly relaxed Cars and vans park almost anywhere. With a press card, you can enter most ministries, the Prime Minister’s offices and often the Elysee. At the stadiums and hotels where the candidates held rallies and conferences, there was only one occasion – Mr Chirac’s youth rally in Paris – when security was in evidence.The only places (except airports) where you regularly have to pass through an X-ray machine are at the parliament buildings and (sometimes) the Foreign Ministry. The same exercise included the abolition of the special fleet of aircraft, the ban on government cars using flashing lights, and a reduction in the convoy accompanying the President when he leaves the Elysee.Even before the Chirac simplification drive, however, attitudes towards security in France seemed distinctly relaxed.Throughout the presidential election campaign, for instance, it was invariably possible to follow the candidates, including the then prime minister, and their teams, on production of a personal card, or at most, the card of your news organisation Almost no one asked for any further proof of identity. Yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the bomb at St- Michel station, the new arrangements were still in force. They had been introduced on President Jacques Chirac’s instructions, apparently at the instigation of his PR adviser and daughter, Claude.
The relaxation of overt security outside the Elysee was part of a general simplification of ceremony that was ordered by Mr Chirac when he came to office.

Mr Dole’s best hope would seem to be a low turn-out among women voters, which is what happened in 1994. Mr Clinton said he would increase the restrictions on gun ownership. Mr Dole, whose campaign is backed by the National Rifle Association, is committed to making guns more freely available The other issue is abortion Mr Clinton is pro-choice. Mr Dole, a firm believer in the notion that “big government” should keep clear of Americans’ private affairs, wishes to impose legal limits on what a woman does with her own body.On both issues men are evenly split, but the overwhelming majority of women are on Mr Clinton’s side And nothing will change that between now and November.

Almost as if she were deliberately marking out the differences between herself and Elizabeth Dole, who stole the show in San Diego with her fawning, gushing tribute to “the man I love”. Mrs Dole won plaudits from the TV critics but Mrs Clinton came closer to the liberated ideal to which modern American women aspire. To borrow from President Clinton’s speech, Mrs Dole is a bridge to the past, Mrs Clinton a bridge to the future.Much as the fiscal policies of the two parties have merged there are two electorally critical social issues on which they differ starkly One of them is guns. Almost every speech also contained an allusion to Mrs Clinton, portraying her as an assertive, independent-minded woman who had stood up to her Republican tormentors and beaten them Her own speech was serious, thoughtful and dull. Unlike Mr Clinton’s obscure strategist, he cannot shake him off.

Early last year, when his “Second American Revolution” was in full flood, American men admired his bravado. But even then women detested him – both for his policies, which they viewed as heartless, and for his manner, which they found obnoxious. Today, the Gingrich revolution having been condemned to the dust-heap of history, he is the most unpopular American politician since Richard Nixon, among both men and women.At the Democratic convention last week almost every speech contained an allusion to Mr Gingrich, contrasting his mean-spiritedness with the Democrats’ compassion. Mr Clinton’s charms are less obvious than Mr Grant’s, but they are no less compelling.He has four things going for him. Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton and his positions on guns and abortions. Combined they add up to a fifth: the perception that he cares more about vulnerable Americans than the Republicans, that – in a favourite Clinton phrase – he feels their pain.Mr Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, is Mr Dole’s albatross. A joke doing the rounds in Chicago on Friday was, “Who is President Clinton going to appoint as Dick Morris’s successor?” “Hugh Grant.”Everything indicates that, barring more scandals, Mr Clinton will retain the electoral affections of most American women despite Mr Morris, just as Mr Grant has retained his appeal despite Divine Brown.

The story of his affair with Gennifer Flowers did not stop him winning the 1992 election, nor did it prevent the majority of women voting for him. And Mr Clinton’s poll lead over George Bush was never nearly as commanding as his lead is today over Mr Dole.The likelihood is that the indiscretions of Mr Morris, who until last week was virtually unknown outside the Washington bubble, will provoke some laughter but little political effect. After all, the only concern here is that the Morris frisson will rub off on Mr Clinton. And Mr Clinton has shown that though dirt may stick – in contrast to the Teflon President, Ronald Reagan – it does not hurt. So much so that Mr Dole has complained that his rival has stolen his ideas, notably those that emphasise balancing the budget and reducing “big government”, from the Republicans.The first line of speculation in Chicago was that Mr Dole’s campaign team would seize the opportunity presented by the scandal to eat into the women’s vote, the general assumption being that men will be more sympathetic to Mr Morris’s weakness.

And a member of the Dole team said on Thursday that it would provide further ammunition to attack the seaminess of a White House plagued by the never-ending Whitewater affair, allegations of marijuana-smoking among staff members and a president who has been consistently portrayed as a man with a wandering eye.But logical as it might be for Mr Dole to assume that women would be disgusted by Mr Morris’ behaviour, and that disgust would translate into Republican votes in November, precedent suggests that this is not the way the American female mind works. Employed by the White House in the aftermath of the Democrats’ disastrous defeat in the mid-term congressional elections of November 1994, he has succeeded in nudging the President fiscally further and further to the right. To win he has to persuade a lot of women who are comfortably entrenched in the Clinton camp to join the ascent. Thus it was that the Republican candidate thrilled to the news on Thursday morning that Dick Morris, Mr Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, had been obliged to resign following a tabloid allegation that he was consorting with a prostitute, Sherry Rowlands.Variously described as Mr Clinton’s Svengali/Rasputin/Richelieu, Mr Morris is credited with restoring the President’s appeal among that vast majority of voters who occupy the mushy centre of American politics. However, while men preferred Mr Clinton over Mr Dole by a margin of 6 percentage points, women supported Mr Clinton by a margin of 16 points.Mr Dole has a mountain to climb. In a survey a year ago, two out of three women said they voted differently from their husbands, while half the men laboured under the misapprehension that their wives voted as they did.A New York Times/CBS poll conducted two weeks ago to test the immediate impact on voters of the Republican convention showed Mr Dole narrowing Mr Clinton’s lead from 20 to 11 per cent.