Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel, I noticed hundreds if not thousands of people milling around the central Zocalo, or large metropolitan plaza, and half of them seemed to be passing out political propaganda. There were colorful political banners all around and a man was driving a van while proclaiming the merits of the Socialist candidate Cuahetomoc Cardenas through a megaphone on top of the vehicle. The opposition candidate directs his appeals to disaffected members of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) and workers...
...There must be some ideal that we have that would appeal to mankind," says Hideaki Kase, a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs officer and writer on security affairs. "Britain has the Magna Carta, France its Liberte. Americans have their Revolution. Even the Russians and the Chinese created socialist models to copy...
Mitterrand's last-minute presidential plunge into the campaign reflected real Socialist fears that the French electorate, apparently in an unpredictable mood, was capable of anything -- including the return of a conservative majority. The Socialists, who initially expected a landslide victory on the strength of Mitterrand's electoral momentum, faltered in the first round of balloting on June 5. The party won only 37.5% of the vote, compared with 40.5% for the conservative alliance comprising the neo-Gaullist Rassemblement pour la Republique and the center-right Union pour la Democratie Francaise. The Communists, written off after their 6.8% score...
...parliamentary election campaign, Mitterrand had tried to explain his "political opening" by saying that "it is not healthy to have a country governed by just one party. There should be other political families taking part in government." But less than two weeks later, the President was pleading for a Socialist majority. What had changed? The emergence, said Mitterrand, of a new threat to the "values of freedom, equality and respect for others." That danger, suggested the President, was implicit in the electoral deal struck in Marseilles between the xenophobic National Front and the mainstream conservative alliance...
...lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...