Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitalism [July 14] is that "there is no alternative that credibly promises both wealth and liberty." Nonsense. Defenders of capitalism (TIME included) naturally propose Communism as the only alternative, since nobody wants that oppressive system. The real alternative to both systems is democratic socialism, which can be achieved through reform and evolution-precisely what has been happening in America. As socialists work to modify the system toward even greater democracy and equality, the specter of authoritarianism will be raised. Yet America has been moving toward socialism for four decades, and our system provides greater liberty today than ever before...
...Communist Party boss has also paid frequent lip service to democracy and emphasized a pragmatic reform program to bring all Portuguese "a better life." Although this moderate stance is probably only a ploy, Cunhal has been able to take much of the edge off his own reputation as a ruthless Stalinist. Even the least sympathetic officers have been impressed by the Communist Party's discipline, its effective organization and-perhaps above all-its loyal collaboration with the military. Only rarely does Cunhal drop his guard and publicly deride parliaments, elections and democratic freedoms...
...furor continues, the White House is trying to decide how to reform the CIA without ruining it. Essentially, the President and his close advisers believe that the agency should be maintained in its present general form and have the capability to mount covert operations. The Administration is not likely to accept the advice of former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and others who argue that the CIA should be split into two separate units: one for intelligence gathering and one for covert operations. White House officials believe that this could be inefficient, since the two functions often involve the same agents...
...Country and the World concludes with a 12-point program for reform of the Soviet system. Among his recommendations: the institution of a multiparty system, a general amnesty for political and religious prisoners, the legalization of labor strikes, and open borders. His sweeping criticism of U.S. policy shows that he does not really know the U.S. very well; he speaks simplistically of the American "working class" and suggests that every critic of Senator Henry Jackson's anti-détente stand is politically motivated. But Sakharov's is nonetheless a compelling voice, more measured than Solzhenitsyn...
...stabbed Jailer Clarence Alligood (5 ft. 8 in., 200 lbs.) eleven times with an ice pick in the Beaufort County jail in Washington, N.C. (pop. 9,000), on Aug. 27, 1974. Joan, her lawyers and a spontaneous coalition of feminists, civil rights and prison-reform advocates insist that she was defending herself against rape by her 62-year-old white jailkeeper. To them, this is a classic example of the way rape victims can be railroaded by male-dominated legal systems, and of how black women prisoners are sexually abused by white guards, especially in the rural South...