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...then Deputy Secretary of State, and addressed to U.S. Ambassador Monteagle Stearns in Greece, was denounced in the Greek press as a forgery. The letter claimed that the U.S. supported conservatives in the Greek elections of October 1981 and suggested that a military coup would be appropriate if Greek Socialist Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister, as indeed...
Pablo Emilio Madero, candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party...
...allowed more dissent than in any other Mexican election. Six parties besides the P.R.I, ran presidential candidates, and a total of 100 seats in the country's 400-member Chamber of Deputies were set aside for the opposition. Two weeks ago, some 40,000 supporters of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico, a left-wing conglomerate that includes Mexico's Communist Party, jammed the huge Zocalo square in front of Mexico City's presidential National Palace...
...atheistic father whose holy passion was the race track, Day did not even become a Catholic until she was 30. At 15 she was reading Darwin. Marx soon followed. After dropping out of the University of Illinois, she went to work for $5 a week for a socialist daily, the Call, on New York's Lower East Side. One of her first assignments was to interview Leon Trotsky. Before she was 20, she became an editorial assistant at the Masses, where she met John Reed...
...Duehay adds that such programs will be crippled if local residents aren't trained adequately to enter the job force: "We don't live in a socialist country. Government can't force businesses to accept people that they don't need." He and others agree that the city must also adopt an expanded job-training program...