Mighty Le Pen. (Jean-Marie Le Pen; France) (Europe )

The Economist (US);  May 12, 1990 ;     700+ words ......seems to make Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen go away. This spring has...they try, the mischievous Mr Le Pen finds a way to turn it to...the prime target. Yet the new law looks unlikely to deter Mr Le Pen, who has already been fined...Racism and support for Mr Le Pen ...

Le Pen Enjoyed Time in Limelight

AP Online;  May 5, 2002 ;     677 words ......gestures and a booming voice, Jean-Marie Le Pen has never had trouble attracting attention...showing in the election's first round, Le Pen complained almost gleefully: I've become...the worst kind, based on fear and hate. Le Pen has spent his career preaching the evils...

Racist ...who me?; LE PEN PROFILE

The Sunday Herald;  April 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Crook. Cheat. All insults which Jean-Marie Le Pen likes to casually chuck at his political...member of the French National Assembly, Le Pen joined a parachute regiment of the French...Abdenour Yahiaoui that he was tortured by Le Pen. In one report, filed by a police commissionaire...

Rally to support Le Pen draws thousands as police prepare for May Day

AP Worldstream;  May 1, 2002 ;     635 words ......PARIS Extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen led several thousand supporters through...demonstrations against the nationalist politician. Le Pen's supporters crowded in the Rue de Rivoli, a main artery through the city, chanting Le Pen, president and waving tricolor flags and...

France's Le Pen Runs As Defender

AP Online;  April 21, 2002 ;     610 words ......AP) _ Extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, bombastic, fiery and theatrical, has been...projections by three main polling firms showed. Le Pen will face off against incumbent President...right. Loud, sometimes almost thundering, Le Pen has put forth a French first message that...

LE PEN: HOW DID HE DO IT?

United Press International;  April 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Le Pen: How did he do it? PARIS, D.C., France...International via COMTEX) -- Jean-Marie Le Pen, 73 -- the man who squeaked a bare three...in the second round of election May 5. Le Pen's unexpected second-place showing in Sunday...

Le Pen: How did he do it?

United Press International;  April 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......D.C., France, Apr 22, 2002 Jean-Marie Le Pen, 73 -- the man who squeaked a bare three...in the second round of election May 5. Le Pen's unexpected second-place showing in Sunday...thronging with demonstrations denouncing Le Pen as Superfacho (the arch-fascist), while...

International: Le Pen sues for libel after Algiers torture allegations

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 4, 1999 ;     700 words ......to rule on allegations that Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of France's far-Right National...At a court hearing in Paris last week Mr Le Pen was confronted with a 1962 magazine article...in the course of a defamation action Mr Le Pen is bringing against the author of the book...

Le Pen Says Is Defender of French

AP Online;  April 22, 2002 ;     622 words ......PARIS (AP) _ Extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, a fiery orator with quick wit and sharp tongue...Lionel Jospin was pushed out of the running by Le Pen. An election isn't won mathematically, Le Pen said later, referring to the upset. When a great...

Chirac Urges French to Block Le Pen

AP Online;  May 4, 2002 ;     626 words ......views of far-right challenger Jean-Marie Le Pen and assure his re-election in the runoff...conservative president has called his race against Le Pen the fight of my life. With electioneering...anyway, urging them to stand in the way of Le Pen and calling him an extremely dangerous...

For extremist Le Pen, Sunday runoff election a sign of French...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......almost everyone discussing Jean-Marie Le Pen's second-place finish in the first round...it: l'insecurite. The ultranationalist Le Pen, both foes and supporters agreed, had harnessed...announced his retirement from politics. Le Pen's extremist views have led to comparisons...

For extremist Le Pen, Sunday runoff election a sign of French insecurity.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  April 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......almost everyone discussing Jean-Marie Le Pen's second-place finish in the first round...it: l'insecurite. The ultranationalist Le Pen, both foes and supporters agreed, had harnessed...announced his retirement from politics. Le Pen's extremist views have led to comparisons...

Employers' group says Le Pen would cause economic disaster in France

AP Worldstream;  April 29, 2002 ;     591 words ......joined protests Monday against Jean-Marie Le Pen, accusing the far-right candidate for...the near-daily demonstrations against Le Pen since his stunning second-place finish in the presidential primary. Le Pen, the leader of the ultra-right National...

French soccer star latest luminary to line up against far-right...

AP Worldstream;  April 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ultra-right presidential candidate Jean- Marie Le Pen. Zidane, a son of Algerian immigrants who...rate in the first round helped catapult Le Pen into the May 5 runoff. What I want to simply...he told France-Info radio, adding that Le Pen's anti-immigration party does not at all...

The Third Man; Once again, Le Pen is poised to play the spoiler in...

Newsweek International;  February 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......McNicoll And Christopher Dickey Jean-Marie Le Pen laughed, and then laughed some more. The...I have nothing against women. I am ... Le Pen actually giggled as he talked over the...Strasbourg. But the banter certainly was vintage Le Pen: mocking political correctness, presenting...