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Prodi, who was also named prime minister in 1996, faced similar problems when his government fell in 1998 after the Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support for the Union...
...Stones’ 1968 hit, “Sympathy for the Devil,” told in the first-person as Lucifer himself, links Beelzebub with Russia’s communist October Revolution. Not exactly the most endearing track to play for a bunch of ostensibly Maoist Chinese. “Under My Thumb,” on the other hand, might appeal to foot-binders and other social conservatives...
President Hu Jintao of CHINA, who travels to Washington next week, leads a country whose economic might is in many ways the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the first top Communist Chinese leader to visit...
...different. In 1976, a coup d’état introduced military dictatorship in Argentina for the sixth time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Perón two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign embassies knew the coup was coming...
...national show who also falls in love with Jefferies; he cynically comments on the action without having the confidence to interfere. Besides biting wit, Matthau conveys the frustration of Cold War intellectuals unable to find a way out of the national chaos percolating around them during the anti-Communist 1950s...