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...their vote. So far, no one party has been able to capitalize. Many of the 320,000 Arab voters have traditionally chosen Labor, but this year some are looking farther left. Their defection could have a boomerang effect, swelling Likud's plurality at the expense of Labor. Three other leftist parties could account for as many as eight seats in the Knesset. Darawshe's new Arab Democratic Party, which calls for direct negotiations with the P.L.O., could pick up another. But he represents the only Arab party that Labor might stomach in a coalition...
...1960s, amid the revulsion aroused by the Viet Nam War, she traveled to Havana and Hanoi and wrote about both places sympathetically, though not without misgivings. Read today, the mismatch in those essays between her complex inquiries and the nostrums of Communism is palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition of left-wing activists, she delivered a biting denunciation...
...Emperor's responsibility for World War II and complaints of undue reverence in reporting his current illness. Said Norikatsu Sasagawa, 48, professor of law at the International Christian University: "The Emperor's health has been treated like a classified military secret. The current jishuku is just too much." Leftist radicals showed their disgruntlement by setting two tiny bombs at subway stations only a few blocks away from the moated palace where Hirohito lay ill, and spraying red paint near the entrance to the tumulus of the Emperor Jimmu, who may be a mythical figure but is thought by many Japanese...
When Eva makes contact with members of the underworld in the capital city she becomes a committed leftist, and the novel takes on, for the first time, a decidedly political tenor...
Foreign debt is placing dangerous pressures on fragile democracies. Especially troublesome to many businessmen is the strong showing made by the leftist opposition parties in Mexico's presidential election last July. "Our foreign debt has to be faced firmly," says Vicente Bortoni Gonzalez de Cosio, president of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico, the country's largest group of private industrialists. "If not, it will force the country into leftist policies...