Word: socialist
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...French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing found himself rejected by both left and right in the second round of his country's municipal elections. Socialist and Communist candidates, who posted impressive gains in the first stage of voting (TIME, March 28), last week triumphed in more than two dozen additional cities with populations over 30,000, including Rennes, Nantes, Bourges, Le Mans and St.-Etienne. This gives the left control of 153 of France's 221 cities of that size. "It's double what we had aimed for," said jubilant Socialist Leader Fran...
...raise pensions, swept Christian Democratic candidates into office in every major city, including Frankfurt. In The Netherlands, Premier Joop den Uyl's Cabinet collapsed last week after the moderate Christian Democratic members of his coalition refused to endorse sweeping land expropriation measures proposed by Den Uyl and his Socialist Party. In Belgium, Christian Social Premier Leo Tindemans is similarly in trouble with his coalition partners...
...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...
...author is, of course, one of the leading members of the liberal Establishment. He is also a kind of patrician socialist who argues in his new book for public ownership of urban land, public auditors instead of boards of directors for corporations, and the gift of food, housing, health care, education and money to the poor. He has a pessimistic view of human nature, but it principally applies to the rich and powerful. "People of privilege," he writes, "will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." Even F.D.R., the Squire of Hyde Park...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brazzaville, the Congo; kidnaped from his Brazzaville home and slain. One of eight black African Cardinals, Biayenda was made the first Congolese primate by Pope Paul VI in 1973. He was killed five days after the assassination of Congolese President Marien Ngouabi, of whose socialist policies he approved. Some observers fear that the murders may be a new beginning of tribal warfare in the Congo...