Word: nonsocialists
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...himself with domestic issues. He takes office at a time when many Swedes are beginning to view Sweden's cradle-to-grave social-service system as a drain on their prosperity. There is some question whether Carlsson can provide the leadership to continue to fend off challenges from the nonsocialist opposition...
...vaunted politics of cooperation would be sorely tested. Bildt will need at least the tacit support of the new right-wing protest party, New Democracy, which won 25 seats by advocating curbs on immigration and cuts in foreign aid -- policies that are anathema to the rest of the nonsocialist bloc and to the socialists as well. Even then, he will face the daunting task of cutting taxes and government spending while not obliging his countrymen to give up too many of their customary benefits too soon...
Last Thursday the Parliament amended the presidential oath of office to eliminate the customary pledge of loyalty to socialism, a vow that the nonsocialist Havel likely would have refused to take. In the same session, Parliament honored Havel's determination to have "close by my side" another revered ghost from 1968. Alexander Dubcek, the former leader who launched the Prague Spring, was restored to a post of power, after two decades of internal exile, by being elected the legislature's new presiding officer. The stately transition was completed on Friday, when Prime Minister Marian Calfa, whose Communist Party colleagues...
After nearly a half-century of solid government, the placid, proudly enlightened Swedes are about as eager for political instability as they are for, well, chaperoned dating. Last week, however, the country was preparing for a long winter of insecure government, following an election that reconfirmed the nonsocialist parliamentary majority by a single seat and that may have ended the career of Sweden's most dynamic politician, former Social Democratic Premier Olof Palme...
...astonishing display of what that liberty might produce, posters that attacked Mao, praised Teng and alluded favorably to the economic achievements of Taiwan went up at the end of November Peking's "democracy wall." In remarkably open conversations with foreign newsmen, citizens of the capital asked searching questions about nonsocialist political systems, evincing particular interest in that of the U.S. Finally, a wall poster addressed to Jimmy Carter appeared on democracy wall. "We should like to ask you to pay attention to the state of human rights in China," it said. "The Chinese people do not want to repeat...