On the streets of Japan, meanwhile, loudspeakers on rightists' trucks have been venting anti-Chinese sentiments, for once not quite out of touch with ordinary people's anger at the public humiliation inflicted by Beijing.
The Liberals Party government has just 34 out of 179 seats in parliament and depends on support of rightist parties, including the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF), to pass laws.
A deeply religious man who began as a journalist on a rightist publication, Mr. Buisson argues that Mr. Sarkozy is wrongly criticized for flashy habits and rich friends, is a victim of the global economic crisis and will emerge victorious.
As the trial gets under way, Mr. Netanyahu is engaged in delicate negotiations to form a governing coalition after the January elections in which Mr. Lieberman ran as Mr. Netanyahu's No. 2 on a rightist ticket.
(Reuters) GERMANY: PARTY MAY BE BANNED -- The government held talks with leaders of the country's 16 states over a possible ban on the rightist National Democratic Party, which is viewed by some politicians as a force with links to anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic attacks.
The most lurid complaint came from John Nolte, writing on the rightist aggregation site Breitbart.com, who charged Crowley not only with jumping into the debate to take Obama's side but also of steering the entire debate in such a way as to make it "a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack Obama".
"We are optimistic that another chance for peace is opening up with the announcement made by the new president that he is willing to negotiate with guerrillas if they hold a cease-fire and end terrorism," Carlos Castaño, political commander of the Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or A.U.C., wrote on the rightist group's Web site.
After two Jewish cemeteries were desecrated in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and an explosive device was found outside a Jewish family's home in Bavaria, German politicians reviewed a possible ban on the small rightist National Democratic Party on the ground that it is a threat to democratic stability.
For about a decade and until this summer, Bossi, as a regular guest-star minister in Silvio Berlusconi's different governments, had kept his dreams of secession quiet and had focused on keeping Berlusconi on a very rightist political agenda.
