Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since Italy's 1963 "opening to the left," the Christian Democrats have maintained power as dominant partners in a series of coalition Cabinets involving Republicans, Social Democrats and Socialists. The small reformist Republican Party is particularly interested in fiscal conservatism. The Social Democrats are vigorously anti-Communist and pro-Europe. The Socialists are continually torn between an ideological affinity with the Communists, their pro-Western loyalties and pork-barrel reasons for remaining in government...
Thus when the miracle happened, and the reformist streams of the initially Party-controlled Prague Spring of 1968 overflowed into a nationwide tide of unrest, the intellectuals, and writers in particular, were, by their past experience, often best equipped to help wipe out the Stalinist garbage accumulated over 20 years. Overnight the Prague literary journal Literarni Listy became the most avidly read paper in the country and its contributors, the spokesmen for popular aspirations (an understandable situation in a country where no legal means of opposition were available, writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship...
...portrait of Bobby Massie's enduring courage and the decency and devotion of those who helped him makes Journey a remarkable human document. Beyond that, the Massies' analysis of how the disease is handled and mishandled by American medicine is a model of reportorial precision and reformist zeal...
Luis Echeverría Alvarez, 53, is Mexico's first reformist President in 30 years. Since his election in 1970, he has committed his administration to closing the economic gap between the poor and lagging rural population and the well-to-do urban classes. It is a race against time. Uncorrected, these inequities could plunge Mexico into a revolution potentially as traumatic as the bloody 1910 revolution that took over a million lives...
...being open to the aspirations of all sectors -the campesinos, the workers, the students, the entrepreneurs-to say to them that the President must be a coordinator within the limits of freedom. We are engaged in the formation of a new nation. I've been only moderately reformist, unfortunately. I would have liked to have had more capabilities to stimulate the economy...