Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) in a statement titled "Support the Moratorium." denounced Nixon's attempts to "buy off the anti-war sentiment in America," and asserted that "the moratorium . . . not only affords us a chance to protest United States policy in Vietnam, but also the chance to examine . . . United States foreign policy in general...
...campaigner, Willy Brandt relied heavily on the Socialist team that devised the party's successful strategy. As Chancellor, Brandt is expected to employ their talents just as fully. Key members of the team...
...Grand Coalition, the nine Socialist Ministers (out of 19) were the stars of the government. Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller guided West Germany out of its economic slump; Transportation Minister Georg Leber (no relation to Julius) began unclogging Western Germany's Autobahnen by forcing freight off the roads and back onto the deficit-ridden rails. Foreign Minister Brandt conducted an imaginative eastward-looking policy. Meanwhile the Free Democrats were moving away from conservative policies and closer to those of the Socialists. Last March, Socialist and Free Democrat members of the Bundestag joined forces to elect Gustav Heinemann as the first...
Much of the credit for the electoral gains belongs to the team around Brandt (see box, page 32). In pre-election polls, Brandt trailed both Kiesinger and his own Economics Minister Karl Schiller, who emerged as West Germany's popular politician. But Socialist publicists wisely played up the theme, "we have the right...
...Germans did not intend anything quite so grand. They simply could not think of any other way to stave off a speculative crisis. Convinced that a new socialist government would raise the value of the mark, speculators clamored to buy German money. In just 90 minutes of trading on the morning after the election, $250 million poured into the Bundesbank from abroad. The outgoing Kiesinger government was in no position to stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark...