Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Potsdam's Erloser Church, an overflow crowd of 5,000 booed, whistled and stamped their feet when party theoretician Otto Reinhold, until recently one of the East German guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, proclaimed his conversion to reform by saying that the constitutionally enshrined leading role of the Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) was a thing of the past. From the audience a voice shouted, "Wendehals!" (turncoat), unleashing an uproar in the audience...
...uncomfortable partnership was made possible after Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou finally dropped his demand for electoral reforms that would have benefited the leftists. The former Prime Minister, 70, who has been charged with bribe taking and breach of faith, will have no formal position in the new government...
...style of the attack, the weapons used and other details suggested that ultrarightists, perhaps with ties to the army, were involved. The far right opposes the Socialist government's attempt to improve relations with the Basques...
...stressed, however, that such measures couldonly be undertaken if there are truly freeelections in East Germany that includenon-socialist parties. East Germany's newCommunist leaders have said free elections couldbe held as early as next fall...
Bernard Sanders, who from 1981 to 1989 was the only socialist mayor in America, is the former mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He is currently a fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School...