Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Loennback said the funeral would be closed to the public, but "many foreign guests" would be invited. Palme, 59, was serving his fourth term as prime minister and was regarded as a top Western European spokesman on disarmament and socialist causes...
...governments in the dozen years since it became a democracy, he was his country's best-known political figure. He served as Prime Minister in three governments, leading the last through a grueling and unpopular period of economic austerity. This past October Mario Soares, 61, seemed washed up. His Socialist Party had just been defeated in parliamentary elections. When he announced his candidacy for President, polls showed his popular support at a rock-bottom 8%. Unfazed, Soares persisted...
Last week his determination paid off. The veteran Socialist leader came from behind to win narrowly the second and final round of balloting for the presidency. The final tally: 51% of the vote for Soares compared with almost 49% for right-wing Candidate Diogo Freitas do Amaral, who had scored 46% in the first round and had seemed in a good position to win. In Lisbon, thousands of supporters gathered outside Soares' campaign headquarters to celebrate his dramatic comeback. Visibly moved, the President-elect told them, "For the first time in 60 years, Portugal has a civilian President...
Palme led the Social Democrats, Sweden's socialist party. He first was prime minister from 1969-76, then returned to office in 1982 after leading his party to victory over an incumbent conservative coalition. He won re-election to a three-year term...
...Fidel Castro's angriest performance since 1970, when Cuba's sugar harvest fell disastrously short of its goal. Addressing 1,800 delegates to the Cuban Communist Party's third congress, including representatives from 100 socialist countries, he vigorously and theatrically attacked rampant waste, mismanagement and indiscipline in Cuba's faltering economic system, still heavily dependent on Soviet subsidies. After two hours of a 5-hr. 40-min. marathon, Castro, 59, called an unusual half-hour recess. Precisely 30 minutes later, the Cuban dictator, who often wears two watches to be sure he is on time, strode onto the podium...