Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brandt irks his comrades by molding a movement to his image
...government coalitions. Among those that remain in power, France's is confronted with major economic difficulties and Spain's faces high unemployment. Meanwhile, the Socialist International has become riven by internal squabbles, mostly centering on the contentious role played by its president, former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...Issam Sartawi, the P.L.O. delegate, in a hotel lobby Sunday morning. The gunman escaped. Sartawi's presence in Albufeira had been a contentious issue. If all had gone according to plan, the Socialists would have held their 16th biennial congress in Sydney, Australia. But last February, at Brandt's request, Portuguese Socialist Leader Mario Scares extended a formal invitation to the P.L.O. to send an observer. The Australian Socialists, led by newly elected Prime Minister Robert Hawke, objected strenuously, since they did not want to give the impression that they were "instant radicals," as one Australian at last...
...chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party, the largest contributor to the organization, Brandt has used his party's bureaucracy and his personal prestige to expand the movement's influence in the Third World. He has got 16 leftist movements and parties, including those of Guatemala, Venezuela and Costa Rica, to join. But, to the dismay of some of his colleagues, he has imprinted the Socialist International with his own ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from...
...both cases, angry Socialist comrades demanded that the International issue an immediate "clarification." The revised documents explicitly condemned the "brutal repression of civil rights" in Poland, and softened Brandt's position on El Salvador by leaving open the possibility for "free and honest elections." His authoritarian approach brought him into conflict with Swedish General Secretary Bernt Carlsson, 44. Early this year in Bonn, Carlsson pointedly reminded Brandt that "this is a Socialist International not a German International." In retaliation, Brandt forced Carlsson to step down last week...