Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little disappointed in his stay because there were no "black groups." We asked him what he meant. In Cuba, he replied, everyone--black, mulatto and white--intermingled, regardless of color. Furthermore, he continued, the Cubans wanted him to do physical labor and work like everyone else in a socialist society. One of our delegates commented that his disappointment with a Communist country came from his trying to perceive this new society from the values of the United States--a capitalist country...
...Conflict and the need for force will not go away. The Arabs will still want money, and they will still want the destruction of Israel (which, by the way, is socialist...
...Western countries will still need oil from the Arabs. Sweden, England, and West Germany all have socialist governments, but they still have to pay oil bills...
Even the country's leftist students and teachers, who initially welcomed the coup, are unhappy. The universities have been closed, and 60,000 students have been ordered off to the countryside to teach "reading, writing and rural regeneration" to the peasantry. "We have exchanged feudal tyranny for socialist tyranny," one student recently complained to TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs...
...Minister for Foreign Trade (1970-73). The agitation in Bihar has been aimed at unseating a state government that Mishra, himself a Bihari, had strongly backed. The movement has been led by one of India's most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing for new elections in Bihar as a way of fighting political corruption there. The New Delhi government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has opposed these efforts-partly because her Congress Party has a majority...