Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Socialists clearly viewed the alliances as a necessity, not an ideal. Spain's Felipe Gonzalez ruled out an exclusive Socialist-Communist partnership in his country, preferring a broader coalition that could include progressive Catholics and anyone else seeking a "democratic rupture" in post-Franco Spain (see story page 42). Manuel Alegre, deputy head of the Portuguese Socialist Party, charged that Cunhal's Communists in Lisbon "conduct themselves like a party from another planet and another...
Still, the principal Southern Socialist parties all endorsed the basic approach toward alliances-if only as strategy, and perhaps for a country other than their own. Portuguese Socialist Chief Mário Soares, who was in the U.S. while his colleagues met in Paris, told TIME last week that the Southern Socialist strategy is designed to "force the Communists to come out for freedom." Whether or not Communist leaders are sincere in promoting liberty, such ideas will inevitably "create in workers and militants a new pattern of thought" favorable to democracy. Soares also thinks that keeping Communists in the Portuguese...
...believe that the Communists will abide by the rules of democracy and yield power should they lose an election. He also fears that Communists in Western Europe's governments might leak NATO secrets to Moscow. On orders from Kissinger, U.S. diplomats called on a number of European Socialist leaders before the Helsingor meeting, urging them to reject any trend toward Communist alliances...
...American lobbying campaign annoyed many Southern Socialists, who feel that neither Kissinger nor their Northern European colleagues understand the problem. "There is a new situation in Southern Europe," says Robert Pontillon, national secretary of the French Socialist Party. "There is a dynamism on the left, but we can't reach power without an alliance with the Communists. Unless the U.S. wants to deal only with the likes of Franco and the Greek colonels, Kissinger must admit the reality of Southern Europe, including large Communist parties...
...largely appointed upper chamber. Arias also promised to reform the electoral law that now allows only Franco's National Movement to exist as a political party. Arias carefully avoided using the word party, but most observers interpreted his speech to mean that moderate parties and possibly even a socialist coalition would eventually be permitted. There would, however, be no toleration of Basque separatists or Communists...