Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the estimated six-year construction period. With unemployment running at 9.8% in France and an even higher 13.2% in Britain, the project has economic and political appeal for both leaders. Moreover, Mitterrand hopes that the venture will burnish his image before legislative elections on March 16, which his Socialist Party is currently expected to lose...
Mickey Mouse pranced across the entire front page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many...
...eviscerated the country's bauxite-and-sugar-base d economy. Although he was Burnham's principal deputy for the past decade, last week the newly elected President offered his 800,000 fellow citizens some hope, promising that a revitalized economy would be his first priority. "I am a socialist," he said, "but I hope that I am not an airy-fairy socialist, that I am not bound by the dead hand of the past...
...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...
When Caspar Weinberger came to Harvard in November 1983, he received the welcome he so richly deserved: hundreds of student protesters, including members of the SYL, shouted him down. Joe didn't show, although at the time he claimed to be a militant socialist and had even told some of his friends that he had joined the SYL! In the spring of 1984, trade union militants in Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand...