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Although they won more than half the seats in the 400-member parliament in June's elections, Bulgaria's former Communist leaders have been struggling to keep a grip on power and hold their newly renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party together. The internal crisis was triggered early last month when President Petar Mladenov, who deposed longtime Stalinist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989, stepped down under pressure. Mladenov had angered opposition groups and liberal members of his party by suggesting that tanks be used to break up a pro-democracy demonstration last December...
...hear him promise a new golden age for Serbia; last month 30,000 people demonstrated against him in Belgrade, burning pictures of him and chanting "Traitor, traitor." In a bid for survival, a Serbian Communist congress in Belgrade voted two weeks ago to merge with a front organization, the Socialist Alliance, to become the Serbian Socialist Party. The change is widely thought to be purely cosmetic: a few non-Communists were elected to the new party's leadership, but Milosevic was voted into the top post without opposition...
...assumed that all my "propaganda mail" would stop as the socialist world began to crumble. But while I was home last weekend, I heard a familiar call from my mother. "Brian you got mail," she said. "From where?" I asked. "Cuba...
...People's Daily in its July 18 overseas edition published an article titled, "Learning from Lei Feng at Harvard," implying that American Harvard students are rushing to embrace the socialist consciousness of one China's most famous heroes...
Before the East German elections earlier this year, Brandt was a stump speaker and nostalgia figure at campaign rallies. His Social Democrats lost because the people of the G.D.R. have had their fill of anything that even sounds socialist. But they still owe much to the author of Ostpolitik. What Willy Brandt did two decades ago helped make it possible for them to elect a unity Chancellor this year...