Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years Portugal has overthrown an entrenched dictatorship, absorbed a military-inspired revolution and narrowly escaped a Communist takeover. But affable, astute Mario Scares, 52, remains the champion player of his country's seesaw political game. Since his election as Premier a year ago last month, the Socialist leader has cleverly played off Communists against centrists, centrists against conservatives, confident that all sides have an interest in seeing his democratically elected government succeed. Otherwise, he explains, "there would be no alternative but dictatorship...
...Civil War, the mountain resort village of Cercedilla (current pop. 4,000), 35 miles north of Madrid, suffered its share of Nationalist vengeance. Some Republican sympathizers were imprisoned and a few were shot, while many more fled to exile. One of those never accounted for was Protasio Montalvo, the Socialist mayor of Cercedilla during part of the war. For years villagers wondered whether he had died fighting on some distant front or had been a victim of mass executions after the war or perhaps had taken up a new life in exile...
...black plastic sandals that are said to be good in any weather and any terrain. Every recruit receives two months of basic military training and a heavy dose of Marxist political indoctrination; recent emphasis has been on the writings of Mao Tse-tung and on vague plans for a socialist state after independence. "Socialism will be dominant," Chairman Nasser told TIME'S Brelis, "but we will have to define it as we go along...
Soviet Intervention. Back at Libreville, what was notably missing from the OAU summit was the customary volume of anti-West rhetoric. In a stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only turn the African continent into a vast arena of conflict. We do not want to replace one imperialism with another imperialism." An Egyptian delegate agreed, warning that "the only issue that really matters here is that of Soviet interference in Africa." The conference subsequently adopted a Senegal-proposed resolution that...
According to The Totalitarian Temptation, Communist regimes are judged by what they promise to do; oth er states are rated on their deeds. The de nial of freedom in Communist-dominated Peru, for example, is excused by many leftists as a historical necessity on the road to the socialist paradise. The same behavior in Chile is denounced as fascist repression. Revel makes the pro vocative point that while many fascist regimes have come and gone, and a few have even been liberalized, not a single orthodox Communist regime has disappeared in this century...