Word: reformist
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...boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween one side or the other...
...news bulletin, Trialogue, the Trilateral Commission characterizes its policies towards international relations as the "reformist approach." It believes that "expansion of the global economic pie, rather than (its) redistribution, is the most hopeful means of improving the relative economic positions of the poorer nations...
...keeping Arias as Premier. But he could signal a receptiveness to change by gradually shaking up the rest of the Cabinet and bringing in reform-minded ministers. There are a number of prominent center-rightists, for example, who have criticized the Franco regime and would give a distinctly evolutionary-reformist tone to the new Cabinet. Among those who might assume senior posts in the next six months...
JOAQUÍN RUIZ GIMÉNEZ, 62, a law professor and a former reformist Minister of Education in the 1950s who now heads the still illegal Christian Democratic Party and, despite his relative conservatism, is respected and trusted by the entire democratic opposition and the Spanish Communist Party (P.C.E...
...Spaniards have been allowed to forget, was not a rebel leader before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Although he was King Alfonso's favorite general, Franco remained cautiously on the sidelines when the monarchy, abolished in a democratic election in 1931, was replaced by a reformist Republican government whose moderate policies were opposed by extremists of both right and left. He refused to take part in several abortive, ill-planned military revolts against the Republicans, and in 1934 crushed an anti-Republican uprising of Asturian miners so mercilessly that he earned the nickname "Butcher." His loyalties, however...