overwhelming margins in some areas with heavy concentrations of im- migrants-has achieved a national importance that a similar extremist party in the United States would find hard to win. Ethnic and racial concerns play no small role in American poli- tics, of course, but "the politics of integration or ex- clusion" in France, Horo-

Jean-Marie Le Pen, of the anti-immigrant Front National, was him- witz says, has "a bluntness self a key issue in 1988 elections in which Francois M...