Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bourguiba, 84, who has ruled the small North African nation (pop. 7.6 million) since it gained independence from France in 1956, regularly conjures up foreign plots in order to justify suppression of dissent. Despite his age and frail health, Bourguiba's hold on power is virtually absolute: his Destourian Socialist Party holds every seat in parliament, most opposition newspapers have been shut down, and competing political parties are restricted...
...They're out to stomp out every single communist political group, every single socialist group, every single progressive political organiza- tion in the world," Sheehan said. "This is oneof the two largest threats to civil rights in theworld--the other is the KGB," he said...
...remark provoked a storm of condemnation. Former Socialist Premier Laurent Fabius called the National Front leader "quite simply a fascist." Le Pen, who has declared himself a candidate in next year's presidential elections, claimed that his reply had been "abusively interpreted" and blamed the furor on "the pro-immigrant lobby...
...attempt to settle the matter, the French last week held a referendum on independence in the islands. The result: 48,611 vs. 842 in favor of remaining a French territory. But Kanaks argued that the tally was not conclusive. As a result of a boycott organized by the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, less than 20% of all eligible Kanak voters cast ballots. Said Jean-Marie Tjibaou, president of the Kanak front: "The referendum in no way changes the situation...
...liberal to centrist academic writings. Ironically, the most important required text was by Eric Williams, the late, conservative Prime Minister of Trinidad, supplemented by an historical work by V.S. Nainaul, a political reactionary who is anathema to the Caribbean left. Only one of the required works was by a socialist, an English scholar who bent over backward to be fair...