Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ghotbzadeh's political views are basically socialist. On his office wall hangs a poster celebrating the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Islamic leftist group that probably forms the backbone of the militants who seized the U.S. embassy. But he is also aligned with the conservative mullahs on the Revolutionary Council...
About a dozen members of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) rallied outside of the talk in the Lowell House senior common room, charging ARCO with considering corporate profits before consumer interests, and with drilling off the coast of South Africa...
...students last week filed a class-action suit in Federal District Court in Washington challenging the constitutionality of the Carter deportation program on the grounds that it discriminates against one nationality group. The suit, which asks for an injunction against the program, was supported by two leftist organizations: the Socialist Workers Party and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. The American Civil Liberties Union is expected to bring a similar suit this week. Says...
...shrinking majority signal several political changes for Japan. The election results confirm that the LDP's salad days of dictating policy and setting the national agenda are over. Ohira needs to forge a new coalition of moderate-centrist opposition groups like the New Liberal Club, the Democratic Socialist Party and the Komeito "clean government" party to get legislation through the Diet. But working in this "period of equal balanced forces" requires wily and forceful leadership...
...Georgescu managed to escape this fate through his Western contacts, he is "very pessimistic for the future of professors and students who remain in socialist Romania." Until 1974 many intellectuals sincerely believed that something good could be expected from the regime. Most were willing to "give it a chance." Nowadays the picture has changed. The personal nature of the regime, the "crazy cult of personality," which has developed in Romania, has totally disenfranchised the intellectuals. Few choices remain: to stay, to speak up and risk dearly, or to leave. There is indeed no easy...