Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern flank. The campaign had been spectacular and occasionally ugly, a succession of mammoth rallies, fiery oratory and occasional mudslinging. When the political chorus finally fell silent last week, there was a faint sense of relief in Western capitals. The paradoxical reason: Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 66, the charismatic Socialist whose belligerent rhetoric and obstructionist ways have tested alliance patience since 1981, was still securely in power...
...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...
...even Trueba's stalwart anti-communism does not prevent his rapid disenchantment with the tyranny and bloodshed which follows the accession of the military leaders. In one of the book's most touching scenes he helps his granddaughter's lover, a high official in the administration of the deposed socialist President, escape sure death by smuggling him into a foreign embassy in the trunk of his chauffeured Mercedes...
...Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, is sensitive to public rowdiness because his leftist opponents within the Communist Party are quick to criticize any signs of "bourgeois" trends in Chinese society. As Peking's Sports News sermonized on its front page last week, "Athletic events are a window on socialist spiritual civilization...
...city council after ten years of Communist leadership. As a result, Christian Democratic leaders are showing signs of restlessness at being the country's largest party but only a junior member of the government coalition. Analysts in Italy were asking last week if the Christian Democrats would now challenge Socialist Craxi for the Prime Minister's post or if they would seek the presidency, held by Socialist Sandro Pertini, whose term ends next month...