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Although there have been contacts between neofascist groups in most European countries, authorities do not believe they are coordinating their strategy. Still, their increasing boldness is cause for alarm. Right-wing assassins in Italy have killed 88 people so far this year and are now as feared as the leftist Red Brigades. Even before the Oktoberfest bombing, the small neo-Nazi movement in West Germany had stepped up its attacks on immigrant ghettos and Jewish memorials. In Spain, 18 people have been murdered by right-wing terrorists this year, and neo-fascist rallies have been attracting crowds...
...leaders. In particular, the militants aimed at three longtime objectives: 1) the right to draft the party's policy manifesto, which is far more binding than a U.S. party platform; 2) closer control over M.P.s by their "constituency parties," or local committees, 80% of whose members are leftist militants; and 3) selection of the party leader by the rank and file instead of the M.P.s...
Nothing better illustrated the leftists' mood of triumph than the cheers that greeted their hero Benn as he mounted the rostrum. "Within days of the election of a new government," the silver-haired radical promised, bills would be introduced to impose a wealth tax and to nationalize a broad spectrum of additional industries, from banks to trucking firms. Benn then called for the immediate abolition of the House of Lords. This could be done, he said, simply "by creating 1,000 new peers" who could override the existing members of the House of Lords and vote the chamber...
Edwards said that leftist opposition parties decided to protest the constitution by voting no rather than abstaining even though "voting gave legitimacy to the plebescite." The opposition parties felt that this would be more effective because refusing to vote is illegal in Chile and because voting is a "habit of the Chilean people," he added...
...telling public remark made by Morocco's King Hassan II last week. The P.L.O., said Hassan, was ready at long last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years. It was a minor breakthrough in the de facto recognition of Israel by the P.L.O...