Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fails to benefit some 200 prisoners, most of them Basques, who were jailed under last year's decree law against terrorism, which led to the execution of five left-wing guerrillas in September. Nonetheless, most opposition leaders chose to emphasize the amnesty's positive aspects. As one Socialist leader put it, "This moment offers great hope. It would be a tragedy to waste...
Riding High. Berlinguer, his prestige buoyed by the Communist advance in last month's election (TIME, July 5), also spurned Soviet-style rule for Italy. "The models of socialist society followed in Eastern Europe," he asserted bluntly, "do not correspond to the peculiar conditions and orientations of the broad popular masses in the West." He insisted that Italian Communism was committed to economic development in both the public and private sectors. Such heresies so infuriated a Soviet journalist watching the proceedings on closed-circuit TV that he turned to Nickel and tagged Berlinguer with the ultimate Communist insult...
Minority Government. The task of forming a government will go to Socialist Party Leader Mario Scares, 51, whom Eanes has promised to name Premier. Although the Socialists won only a 35% plurality in the spring parliamentary election, Scares plans to form a minority government rather than create a coalition with either the badly humiliated Communists-whom Eanes emphatically does not want in the government -or the parties to the right. He may be forced, however, to leaven a predominantly Socialist Cabinet with a few independents...
...still a reality. The bitter complaint always has been that it liberates only a few. We Americans know better. The U.S. has not only created immense wealth, but has organized the redistribution of wealth on a scale far more impressive than anything brought about by later revolutions. In socialist societies people can move and improve their station through ability. But, more typically, they advance through displaying political orthodoxy and learning how to maneuver the vast bureaucratic machine. These societies have their undoubted attractions. They have done away with many of the uncertainties and injustices of money societies. But they have...
...were accusations of neofascism and worries about a new generation of "ugly Germans." In Paris, Sorbonne Political Scientist Alfred Grosser, a moderate leftist, deplored West Germany's "atmosphere of intolerance, surveillance, snooping and denunciation." A Swedish television report blasted the "socalled radicals' decree and its implications." French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand even set up a Committee for the Defense of Civic and Professional Rights in West Germany...