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...they have traditionally been the first victims of Communist coups. Social democrats can justly answer back that the "true socialists" of Moscow are dictators who have betrayed Marxism's humanistic vision. Alone or in coalitions, social-democratic leaders control the governments of Britain, West Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal?to cite only European examples. (Sweden's Social Democrats, after 44 years in power, were defeated in 1976 by a narrow margin.) Social democracy accepts a multiparty political system and believes in gradual, peaceful means of reaching its socialist goals. In practical terms, this has meant...
...Greek youth's peregrinations between 1964 and 1972, when Getty Museum Curator Jiri Frel viewed him in Munich, are uncertain. By then, ownership was claimed by Artemis, a Luxembourg-based art consortium. Getty, the late oil billionaire, had begun a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at his U.S. home in Malibu, Calif., and expressed interest in the statue. But even he balked at the asking price-about $5 million. After his death in 1976, officials at his museum continued the quest for the statue, finally arriving at a deal this year...
Eventually, Schorr believes, CBS would have found a way to fire him, after the furor had died down. "They would have offered me a `great' post in Luxembourg," he specualted sarcastically, "and when I wasn't producing many stories from Luxembourg they would have said, `Schorr, you just don't have it anymore. All that attention went to your head...
...plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
...approve almost any low-fare offer. Says one CAB official: "The doors are open"-and airlines are walking through. KLM, the Dutch airline, has just proposed a $332 round-trip fare from New York to Amsterdam to start late this month; Iceland's airline is seeking a Chicago-Luxembourg fare of $295 and a New York-Luxembourg price of $275. Surely Freddie Laker has started a movement that will spread and rise...