Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eastern European states offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
...care are free, while cultural and sporting activities are plentiful and cheap with opera tickets costing $1.50. In contrast to their Warsaw Pact allies, most of the 10 million Hungarians are free to travel to the West; a surprisingly wide variety of books, magazines, movies and records from non-Communist countries are available...
...cavernous Great Hall of the People. All the votes were unanimous, all the speakers loudly applauded by the 3,497 delegates. The script for last week's National People's Congress, the body that theoretically serves as China's parliament, came courtesy of the all-powerful Communist Party Central Committee. The point the Central Committee wished to drive home: 18 months after Mao's death and the subsequent arrest of the radical Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner of Chairman Mao," to reverse the course...
...last lap of the race, the major candidates of the four principal parties campaigned in a variety of styles. Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, 57, showed up in Villejuif, a suburb in Paris' working-class Red Belt, to greet his fans in a gymnasium plastered with signs saying ENOUGH INJUSTICE! THE RICH MUST PAY! Displaying the bulldog bluntness that has made him the most entertaining of all the candidates, particularly on TV, Marchais inveighed against the "scandalously" rich. "Do you know there are agencies that specialize in the sale of Caribbean islands where...
...past, such deals have made the second-round vote a direct duel between right and left in most districts. This year, however, Communist Chief Georges Marchais has threatened to upset the usual pattern. In his feud with Socialist François Mitterrand, he has warned that if his Communists do not gain at least 21% of the vote in the first round, he may not withdraw his candidates in districts where Socialists run ahead. In many areas this would result in three-way races - Communists v. Socialists v. center-right candidates - a situation that would give the non-leftists...