Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the U.S., Western Europe, China, the Soviet Union and various international agencies, which last year totaled about $300 million, has helped keep Tanzania solvent. Officials insist, however, that their nation's difficulties are merely temporary. Explains a Tanzanian socialist: "I know it seems like a mess. The people lack enthusiasm because they often don't have the vision to see the promise of a better life. But that is changing slowly; the foundation is being built...
...prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag, "we must attach importance to evidence, investigations and studies." Meanwhile, some long-imprisoned dissidents have been freed, most notably Li Yi-che, jailed in 1974 for protesting a lack of "socialist democracy and legality" in the regime. Tellingly, that very phrase is now in vogue in Peking...
...only thing that seemed probable as France's 32 million voters prepared to go to the polls on March 12 was that the Socialists, Communists and other leftist parties combined would emerge with a majority of the popular vote. But there was no saying who would win the runoff election a week later on March 19, given the nature of France's two-round election system (see box) and the uncertainty about whether the idiosyncratic French Communists would choose to patch up their differences with the bigger Socialist Party...
When the irate murmurs died down, Marchais hit another target: his erstwhile comrade, Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand. "When are we supposed to believe Mitterrand?" he asked rhetorically as boos filled the gym. The Socialist leader, he charged, planned to make a "gift" of $5.7 billion to "giant capitalist companies" in compensation for nationalizing them if he were elected...
...past, such deals have made the second-round vote a direct duel between right and left in most districts. This year, however, Communist Chief Georges Marchais has threatened to upset the usual pattern. In his feud with Socialist François Mitterrand, he has warned that if his Communists do not gain at least 21% of the vote in the first round, he may not withdraw his candidates in districts where Socialists run ahead. In many areas this would result in three-way races - Communists v. Socialists v. center-right candidates - a situation that would give the non-leftists...