Word: socialist
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Also ready to go to the barricades in support of the Nicaraguan government is U.S. Out of Central America, a socialist organization that publishes a newsletter, Central America Alert, and tries to unite its cause with those of antinuclear, civil rights and feminist operations. Another group, called Madre, the Spanish word for "mother," pairs U.S. day-care centers with schools in Nicaragua, setting up pen-pal relationships between the children. Meanwhile, American parents and teachers send money and medical supplies to their Nicaraguan counterparts...
...announced that the army wanted to bring under control "the worsening situation in the country." The military, he said, would "transfer power to the people after a limited transitional period." The new regime not only dismissed Nimeiri, 55, but suspended the constitution, imposed martial law and dissolved the Sudanese Socialist Union, the country's only legal political party...
...provoked feelings that are anything but harmonious. "Shameful," declared Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris and leader of the right-leaning neo-Gaullists. A volley from the left came only 13 hours after the announcement of the plan, when the highly popular Minister of Agriculture, Michel Rocard, a Socialist and longtime Mitterrand rival, resigned in protest...
...legislation, which is expected to be passed by the Socialist-dominated National Assembly, will replace the 27-year-old winner-take-all system in election districts. Under the old scheme, the party that won the most votes in a district took the seat in that district; the revised rules will apportion seats according to the votes won by each party in each of France's regional units called departments. Mitterrand, whose term runs until 1988, is clearly intent on bolstering the chances of his Socialists, who are trailing in the polls, for next year's parliamentary elections. Even...
After two inconclusive parliamentary ballots in six days, Greece's Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou succeeded last week in a bold move that left him at the pinnacle of his power. By mustering 180 votes in Parliament --the absolute minimum necessary--Papandreou saw to it that his candidate, Christos Sartzetakis, 56, was elected President. Sartzetakis replaces conservative Elder Statesman Constantine Caramanlis, 78, a prestigious counterweight to Papandreou who resigned March 10 after the Socialists withdrew support for his candidacy...