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...last Friday, four hours after the polls closed, the outcome was already clear: a decisive victory for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), which will have an absolute majority of 201 seats in Spain's 350-member Cortes, up from 120 seats in 1979. The new conservative opposition party, Alianza Popular, finished a strong second with 106 seats. The Communists won only five seats, down from 20 in the outgoing parliament. In effect, the vote meant the total collapse of the political center, which has governed the country since the return of democracy in 1976 following the death...
...This election has entrusted the government of Spain to the Socialists for the next four years," said jubilant Party Leader Felipe Gonzalez Marquez in an early morning victory statement. Appealing to workers, employers, the bureaucracy and even "the military and forces of public order," the handsome, boyish-looking Gonzalez (who, at 40, becomes the youngest head of government in Western Europe) asked for the cooperation of "all sectors of society." The Socialist leader, who will take over as Prime Minister in December, said that the first domestic priority would be "overcoming the economic crisis." As for foreign policy, he said...
...Politics (IOP) Forum has sparked complaints from two of the participants over the slant and content of the proceedings. IOP fellow Betty Friedan and assistant professor of History Donald Bell addressed a packed Forum on "Feminism and the Family" without knowing the event was co-sponsored by the Democratic Socialist Alliance...
State Senator Michael J. LoPresti Jr '70 won re-election in his Suffolk and Middlesex district--which includes eastern Cambridge. East Boston, and Winthrop--with 31,740 votes, or 88 percent Socialist Party Candidate William Shakalis got the remaining 4413 votes--12 percent of the total...
MADROD--Pope John Paul ii shook hands with Spain's Socialist premier-designate yesterday but seven hours later took the offensive against his campaign pledges to liberalize the laws against divorce contraception and abortion...