Word: socialist
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Peres spent five days in Spain and Italy last week championing the idea of such a meeting. At a regional session of the Socialist International in Rome, Peres held an unexpected round of talks with two Soviet officials. According to Knesset Member Uzi Baram, a Laborite who traveled with Peres, the Foreign Minister told the Soviets that a restoration of diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Moscow would help promote an international conference that would include the Soviet Union...
There is a rub however. Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
...years since a Greek Orthodox priest first raised the banner of revolution against Ottoman rule, affairs of church and state in Greece have been closely intertwined. Last week in Athens the church, under the leadership of Archbishop Seraphim, again raised its standard, this time against the Socialist government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Black-robed priests joined more than 50,000 supporters outside Parliament, waving crucifixes and chanting, "Hands off the church...
...reform: "After several months of work since the end of last year, we have curbed bourgeois liberalization, which was once quite widespread." Having said that, however, Zhao went on to reassure his listeners that Deng's reforms would continue and be "deepened" as China moves toward a "perfect socialist market system...
When Jacques Chirac led his center-right coalition to victory in France's parliamentary elections a year ago, he and Socialist President Francois Mitterrand found themselves in unexplored political territory. Never before in the 28-year history of France's Fifth Republic had a Premier, or head of government, on one side of the political spectrum had to coexist with a President, or head of state, on the other. Now, halfway into the two-year experiment the French call cohabitation, Chirac, 54, has helped make the power-sharing arrangement work better than most political observers had thought possible...