Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year's balloting for Italian candidates for the European Parliament, the Communists had outpolled the country's largest party, the Christian Democrats, by 34.5% to 33%. It was the first time the Italian Communists had come in first in a nationwide vote. Before last week's elections, however, Socialist Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, who heads the five-party governing coalition, threatened to resign if the Communists again emerged as the leading party. The outcome was in doubt until the end because no forecasts were permitted until all polling booths had closed. In the end, the Communists' mood...
...Soviets, the "Great Patriotic War" remains a focus for patriotism and loyalty to the socialist system. For the past year movies, newspapers, radio and TV programs have been filled with tales of World War II sorrow and glory. Even passengers flying into Moscow aboard Aeroflot have been told about the defense of the capital in 1941-42 against the German army, and official news conferences on issues such as foreign trade and Moscow's international youth festival have begun with statements concerning the anniversary. A commemorative ruble was minted for the occasion; Soviet horticulturists even developed a red tulip hybrid...
...itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains at war and on alert: 160,000 of its troops are trying to subdue resistance fighters in neighboring Kampuchea, while another 650,000 men keep an uneasy peace along...
...Letting a hundred flowers blossom," said Chairman Mao, is a sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
...example of how international relations can be built," a view that he might elaborate on during his planned visit to the United Nations in September. He sent another clear message of the Soviet Union's intention to improve relations with China, which has once again become a "socialist country" in Moscow's parlance...