Word: socialist
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Test of Sentiment. Because the voting was regional rather than national, it had no direct relationship to the makeup of Parliament. Nor did it immediately affect Italy's national government, a rickety coalition of Christian Democrats and Republicans, with Socialist support. Nonetheless, as the first balloting since 1972, the election was a significant barometer of the national mood. More than that, it was a test of sentiment concerning Berlinguer's proposed "historic compromise," under which the Communists would share power with the Christian Democrats, who for 30 uninterrupted years have run the country. Evidently, an impressive number...
...strategy for the historic compromise is based on the example of the Allende regime in Chile, a socialist regime in another Catholic country that instituted radical change so swiftly that it panicked the middle class, provoked extremism on the right and frightened off foreign capital. Italian Communists seek to avoid these hazards by emphasizing moderation and stressing that they will zealously guard individual rights. Plainly, many of the 2.3 million 18-to 21-year-olds who were voting for the first time were convinced. So were droves of middle-class Italians...
...grew out of Mrs. Gandhi's campaign four years ago for her parliamentary seat in Rae Bareli, her home district, in the poverty-stricken state of Uttar Pradesh, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. She won a landslide victory -183,000 votes to 71,000 for her opponent, socialist Raj Narain. Barely a month after the election, Narain, 58, an old and bitter foe of Mrs. Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch...
...hours of his detention and, more important, prohibiting "illegal pressure on detainees," meaning torture. But in one two-week period since the decree, according to legal sources, about 30 people were seized by the police; 19 of them have not been seen since. Among the recent victims is a socialist named Sergio Zamora Torres. Seized and tortured for six hours, Zamora eventually managed to get the protection of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henriquez, head of Chile's increasingly oppositionist Roman Catholic Church. Zamora was examined by Silva's doctor and found to show burns on his arms...
...fact that he was also a good-looking 6 ft. 2 in. did not hurt either. During World War I, he was a flyer and an infantry officer. He was a skillful amateur boxer, and later became a member of Britain's fencing team. Even as a Socialist and disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy of the West End World. His first wife, Cynthia Curzon, daughter of a marquess and granddaughter of a Chicago multimillionaire, made racy copy. Wrote one gossip columnist...