Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonid Brezhnev receive visitors in a gilt room once used by Catherine the Great. Correspondent Lee Griggs recalled witnessing the beginnings of a dozen socialist countries when he was our man in Africa from 1959 to 1962 and again from 1972 to 1977. "The ceremonies, which were usually held in the soccer stadium of the new capital city, were full of joy," says Griggs. "At midnight, as the old colonial flag was lowered and the new flag was raised, the crowd would cheer and fireworks would greet the birth of a nation. Yet when I revisited those countries...
France nears the threshold of what Socialist Leader François Mitterrand calls "l'expérience socialiste"?and could cross it if the left wins this month's national elections. Italy faces the threat of the "historic compromise," which would bring Communists into government as partners of the long-ruling Christian Democrats. Socialist Mário Scares is Premier of Portugal, which until four years ago was a rightist dictatorship. Last year in Spain's first free national elections in more than four decades, the Socialist Workers Party of Felipe González emerged as the second most powerful political organization...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) invited delegates to an organizational meeting for a Coalition of progressive Student Organizations (COPSO) last week, in an effort to coordinate the activities of activist groups on campus...
...anti-conformist, he sees the individual artist, and not politics, as the vehicle for genuine social change. He remains resolutely opposed to politically "committed" theatre and, since 1960, has proclaimed himself a "right-winged anarchist" critical of any form of government whatsoever, especially of the disciplined structure of a socialist society...
...Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand claims that the 1978 price of the wage and welfare package will be $8.3 billion. Premier Raymond Barre contends that the entire Common Program would cost $32.7 billion. According to Barre, Mitterrand is "a pyromaniac masquerading as a fire fighter," whose extravagant schemes will destroy the center-right government's economic achievements...