Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demonstrating that she was "not merely [Nehru's] daughter but a person in her own right," Mrs. Gandhi introduced her own sweeping ten-point program for transforming India into a socialist democracy. After she nationalized 14 private banks, angry Congress Party elders expelled her. Mrs. Gandhi promptly formed her own New Congress Party and in September, 1970 she reduced, then eliminated the privileges and privy purses of maharajas-a relic of British Empire days that was then costing the government about $6 million a year...
...eight-time Prime Minister (TIME, June 9), who after four frustrating weeks is still trying to put together a Cabinet that will be acceptable to Lebanon's principal political factions. The problem is that the Phalangists' leader, Sheik Pierre Gemayel, insists that his party be represented. Socialist Leader Kamal Jumblatt is equally determined that the Phalangists be frozen...
Marathon Meeting. The newest crisis grew out of three issues: 1) the seizure by leftist printers of the Socialist newspaper República, which reopened briefly last week only to be closed again; 2) a takeover by workers of Rádio Renascença, the official station of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to violence between Catholic and anticlerical demonstrators; 3) a bid by the Socialists to turn the new Constituent Assembly into a more formal parliament; that move was opposed by the Communists because their representation, based on their 12.5% showing in April's elections, would...
...False News." The overwhelming response was one of relief that Portugal once again had stepped back from the brink of dictatorship. Some Council members, it is believed, argued for the immediate establishment of a Communist state but were rejected by the majority. Said Socialist Mario Soares, leader of Portugal's largest political party: "There is more hope for parliamentary democracy today than there was yesterday." The communiqué, he added, "is very explicit because it rejects a dictatorship of the proletariat and the way of a people's democracy and reaffirms the original movement toward a socialism compatible...
...scattered them across Flanders fields. Yet about half the normal press run made it through, and since then the daily has been published more or less regularly in a plant north of Paris with the aid of some Le Parisien Libéré printers who belong to the socialist Force Ouvrière, a union that does not recognize the strike. That labor organization's head, André Bergeron, escaped injury when a bomb exploded on his doorstep just a few minutes after the one that killed Cabanes. All together, government officials estimate, there have been some...