Word: reformist
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...WELL-MEANING majority of the Crimson fails to distinguish between a lacking reformist "progress" of the Salvadoran rightists and the despairing concessions of the struggling Sandinistas...
...shore up the rule of the Phalangist gangsters. The SYL's call for "Marines out of Lebanon now and alive!" evokes the wide-spread anti-government outrage at Reagan's squandering of life in Lebanon which revives memories of the Vietnam war. However, unlike the reformist left which cries "No more Vietnam!" because they don't want another losing war for U.S. imperialism, the SYL says Vietnam was a victory! For Marines, "our boys" were the Vietnamese who defeated U.S. imperialism on the battlefield and overthrew capitalist rule. This is act the case in Lebanon whose no side is fighting...
After meeting privately for about 10 minutes the departing machine politician and the newcomer reformist mugged for press and television cameras...
White who entered City Hall in 1968 on reformist platform before setting up a political patronage system patterned after the machine of late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, stressed common points between the two cities, citing "the natural tug for power between the Mayor and the City Council a tension that has been a concern of both mayors...
...skeptics, including the Communists and some Christian Democrats, a Socialist-led government promised to be little more than a passing novelty. They saw no reason to believe that Craxi, for all his reformist zeal, could be more successful than his dozens of predecessors who fell victims to Parliament's inexhaustible talent for fomenting political instability. There were optimistic politicians, though, who saw grounds for hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern...