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...first name. It thunders from the throats of thousands of supporters at campaign rallies, and it is even heard on the tongues of such European Socialist leaders as West Germany's Willy Brandt and French President François Mitterrand. "Everybody calls me Felipe. Everywhere," acknowledges Felipe González, 40, the handsome, confident leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), flashing his famous smile...
...informality, González cultivated a serious new image for this year's campaign. Sober suits and ties have replaced the rumpled slacks and open collars, and a sleek layered haircut has tamed his once unruly black locks. He has also brought a harddriving, businesslike approach to politics. During the campaign, for example, he directed a skilled and efficient team, and consulted regularly with an eight-man brain trust from Spanish universities. The son of a dairy worker, González was born and raised in Seville. He was the only one of four children to receive a higher...
Around that time, Spain's Socialists were also beginning to change. A group of militant young firebrands, including González, who were not afraid to operate openly in the country began to challenge the old leadership, which consisted largely of members exiled in Europe and Latin America. During one confrontation, Socialist Leader Rodolfo Llopis was appalled to find González using his own name in politics. To placate Llopis, González adopted the nom de guerre Isidore. By 1972 González and his colleagues had wrested control of the party from the old guard...
...victory last week of Felipe González, Spain's moderate Socialist leader, was not seen in European capitals as evidence of any continent-wide drift to the left. In the past five years, socialist governments have lost power in Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium and Norway, and this year alone, in West Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark. Rather, the election of the first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President Fran...
...much that they have been able to claim they will create more jobs," says Pasquino, "but they can promise not to adopt policies that will lead to greater unemployment." Big expectations, however, can become a political liability, as Mitterrand has learned, as Papandreou is learning, and as González may discover...