Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bedard said Weaver recently received an honorable discharge from the Marines' Reserve Officer Training Corps, and is now serving as campaign manager for a Socialist gubernatorial candidate in Vermont. Lundskow graduated last year while still under probation...
Signs of the crackdown were soon evident. The feared units of army men, their faces daubed with black greasepaint, fanned out through Santiago's vast slums searching for Pinochet opponents. By week's end more than 40 people had been arrested. Among them: Ricardo Lagos, a moderate Socialist Party leader; German Correa, secretary-general of the Popular Democratic Front, an outlawed Marxist coalition; and Rafael Marroto, a spokesman for the Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Five Catholic priests, two Americans and three French, who worked with the poor were also detained. A few days later, the French clerics were...
Syria has little sympathy for either half of the peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...
...Tokyo press, she is the Japanese Thatcher. To the Japan Socialist Party, the country's largest opposition force, she is simply the leader. Takako Doi, 57, gained that role last week when the Socialists elected her party chairman. A seven-term member of the Diet, or national parliament, Doi became the first Japanese woman to head a major political party...
...must now rebuild a crippled opposition. The Socialists suffered a major setback in July, when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's ruling Liberal Democrats won a historic 59% of the seats in the lower house of the Diet. For his part, Nakasone seemed to relish the prospect of facing a female Socialist leader. Said he: "I am a feminist, so I would treat her very nicely...