Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ellen Berman, the Socialist candidate for Governor, faced 40 people and one reporter in a church basement Sunday night and described a grievance that deserves attention even from people who disagree with her political views...
...worst incidents in the border area since Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon in June 1985 and established a narrow security zone in southern Lebanon. Two Syrian-backed groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the allied Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, claimed joint responsibility for the "seaborne suicide operation." Twelve hours later, Israel countered with a bombing raid that blew up an ammunition dump and several buildings at Ein el Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon on the Lebanese coast...
When Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated last week as Austria's sixth President since 1945, the protests were few and symbolic. In the sunlit Great Hall of the Parliament building, some two dozen Socialist Members of Parliament wore black neckties. Many Socialists believe that Waldheim, who served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps during World War II, is unfit to be President...
...Andreotti! Andreotti!" The word spread from table to table in restaurants near the Italian Parliament, as lunching politicians learned that President Francesco Cossiga had selected Giulio Andreotti, 67, to form Italy's 45th government since World War II. The diners had been pondering the government's future since Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi resigned as leader of the five-party coalition three weeks...
...Democrat who served as Foreign Minister under Craxi and five times earlier as Prime Minister, had not been considered a front- running candidate. The biggest problem he faces in his effort to put together a coalition that can win a parliamentary vote of confidence is the opposition of the Socialist Party. Within an hour of Andreotti's appointment, the Socialists issued a statement opposing...