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...nears the threshold of what Socialist Leader François Mitterrand calls "l'expérience socialiste"?and could cross it if the left wins this month's national elections. Italy faces the threat of the "historic compromise," which would bring Communists into government as partners of the long-ruling Christian Democrats. Socialist Mário Scares is Premier of Portugal, which until four years ago was a rightist dictatorship. Last year in Spain's first free national elections in more than four decades, the Socialist Workers Party of Felipe González emerged as the second most powerful political organization...
Taxation rather than nationalization has been Labor's method of building Norway's socialism, which the party defines as "equality among all individuals and groups." Steeply progressive personal taxes (50% for a couple earning $30,000) have helped to level incomes. Says Christian Erlandsen, managing director of an Oslo auto parts firm: "After taxes the difference between me and the lowest-paid guy at this company is not very great. You can't look at just income; you must look at other values. We have our cabins, our spare time. What may be most important...
While French voters pondered the possibility of Communists in power, their neighbors in Italy were much closer to the prospect. After six weeks of caretaker government-close to a record even in Italy-Premier Giulio Andreotti went into a three-day meeting with the 398 parliamentary members from his Christian Democratic Party determined to win backing for a radical step to solve the crisis. Andreotti hewed to the party line, rejecting any deal that would give the Communists seats in some emergency Cabinet -as they had originally demanded. But he argued that in view of the "extreme gravity...
Reverend Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Profesor of Christian Morals, conducted the service. Several of Ecker's friends, David Feinberg '81, Joanne Burger '81, Susanne Coates '81, and his proctor, Jeff Sonnenfeld '76, spoke of their memories of Ecker...
Yesterday's service included reminiscences and readings from Lowell's poems by members of the English Department. The Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, opened the service. "The dead have no need for the living but the living have great need for the dead," he said...