Word: socialistic
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...speeches and parades will be Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, whose program of reforms has been dismissed as "unnecessary" by the aged, tradition-bound leaders who will be his hosts. If past birthdays are any indication, the East German speakers will proclaim how every day "the superiority of socialist society is clearly demonstrated...
...Bank of Crete scandal involves allegations by the bank's owner, George Koskotas, that he systematically looted the Athens-based institution of some $210 million, and then distributed much of the money to high-ranking members of the Socialist Party (PASOK), including the Prime Minister. The commission said it found enough corroboration of Koskotas' charges, which he first made publicly in exclusive interviews with TIME last March,* to recommend prosecution of Papandreou for bribe taking and receiving stolen money...
...Cabinet is a woman, and more than a third of the parliament. Brundtland even toys with the idea of changing the country's system of hereditary monarchy to allow princesses as well as princes to inherit the throne. And in the privacy of her own home, this socialist crusader is married to a prominent conservative scholar and columnist, who raised their four children while she sat in the Cabinet...
...decision to open the border came only after a tortuous debate within the Central Committee of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Hard- liners argued that existing agreements with other socialist states must be upheld, while reformers said it was more important to meet international obligations, among them the 1975 Helsinki agreements and the U.N. convention on refugees. Imre Pozsgay, the party's pre-eminent reformer, told TIME, "We took the step that embraced the higher of the principles involved, that of human rights...
Perhaps this was the case for the select group Leibowitz has chosen to study. It includes such quintessential Americans as noted socialist-anarchist Emma Goldman, novelist Richard Wright and architect Louis Sullivan...