Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imre Pozsgay, 55, is the newborn Hungarian Socialist Party's leading reformer and its candidate for presidential elections scheduled for next month. In his Budapest office overlooking the Danube, Pozsgay was interviewed by TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief John Borrell. Excerpts...
...failure of the reformers in Hungary will help the conservative ((hard-line)) forces in other socialist countries. Reform is unavoidable, but it can be temporarily halted...
...ghost of Karl Marx was even unhappier than usual last week. In Moscow Alan Greenspan, guru of Republican capitalism and chairman of the Federal Reserve, tutored top Soviet officials in remedial economics. In Hungary the country's ruling party shed its Communist label. And in Caracas ranking socialist leaders of the First and Third Worlds -- President Francois Mitterrand of France, 72, on a tour of Latin America, and President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela, 66 -- agreed on the virtues of the free market...
Perez's odyssey has been much more dramatic. Not only is he changing his habits of thinking and governing, but he is trying to change the way his country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that...
When asked about development in East Germany, Vyacheslav Dashichev, a foreign affairs adviser to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, told ZDF that "all Socialist states need to renew their old political and economic systems...