Word: jungsozialisten
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...stayed home in stately old Bonn. Willy No. 2, the angry table thumper, was in charge. It was the first major test of Brandt's leadership since last November's elections, and Brandt faced a challenge from his party's young Marxist wing, led by Jungsozialisten (Juso) Chief Wolfgang Roth. The Juso faction demanded a number of fundamental changes that would push the S.P.D. far left of Brandt's carefully chosen "new center...
Below the surface issues the contest has an emotional, ideological edge -Barzel blames Brandt's Social Democrats for "permissiveness" and points with well-rehearsed alarm at neo-Marxist members of Jusos (for Jungsozialisten), the under-35 wing of Brandt's party. The Jusos have swung so far left that the Chancellor himself recently admonished them for "polemics against the majority opinion of the party...
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