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...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 of the country's post-Franco...
...Marxist-Leninist states, egalitarianism is an empty slogan and socialist rule has become more a dictatorship of praetorians than of the proletariat. In a famous 1957 diatribe, Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas railed against the privileges accorded a "new class" of Communists?party hierarchs, ranking bureaucrats, managers of state enterprises, and superstars in the arts and sports...
...Mehta has observed, "anything would be better than the dictatorship of the emergency," it does not follow that India's problems have been solved with the election of Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. Mrs. Gandhi's family-planning program was often harshly applied. But the sterilizations (8 million in her last year of power) were a human effort to deal with crushing statistics: India's population (now over 620 million) will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. During Desai's first nine months in office, on the other hand, there were only 636,000 sterilizations...
...involvement of the Shah's brother with the commission, but the seemingly minor incident raises some questions about the man who, if confirmed, would become the most powerful man in the Federal financial structure. Immediately striking is the somewhat shadowy connection between Textron and the repressive Iranian dictatorship. And Miller's contention that he did not know of the kickback-smacking connection seems strange and slightly incredible. If Miller did not know, and there is no concrete evidence against him, it is reasonable to expect that he should have, or else his managerial skills come into question...
When an American agency uses the same tactics that you attribute to the KGB, it makes our protestations of freedom as empty as those of any dictatorship...