Word: albania
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...Paris between two schools of economic policy within the Socialist Party: the moderate, internationalist "Europeans" and the leftist, often nationalistic "Albanians," as they were nicknamed derisively by their opponents, who accuse them of wanting to cut France off from the rest of the world, like Communist-ruled, isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even at the cost of domestic sacrifice. The "Albanians" urged Mitterrand to bolt the E.M.S. and resort to protectionism...
...have not brought stability to China. Domestically, in 35 years they have introduced four different concepts of communism, four constitutions, and three wrenching changes in government. Abroad, China was at one time a close ally of the Soviet Union and of Vietnam, but has since invaded both. Formerly on Albania's side against Yugoslavia, it has now reversed position...
Today the death penalty has been abolished in Canada, at least officially in much of Latin America, and in most of Western Europe. In Eastern Europe only Albania has abandoned capital punishment, and it remains in force throughout Asia and the Islamic world. Last year, the world leader in announced executions was Iran, with more than...
...model the gigantic, centrally planned Soviet economy on the Hungarian system, which has abolished most planning and is heavily dependent on imports and exports. As a secretary of the Central Committee from 1962 to 1967, he was in charge of relations with the Communist bloc, traveling to Eastern Europe, Albania, Yugoslavia and Viet Nam. Says the University of California's George Breslauer: "He has tended to take a more tolerant view of Eastern Europe because he is more familiar than most with the complexities of those countries." But those are about the only countries he is familiar with...
...lives up to the standards of anti-Arab Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and later tries to figure out how to leave wartorn, inflation-ridden Israel by obtaining an immigrant visa to the U.S. In the end, alas, he dies while on military service in faraway "Israeli-occupied Albania...