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...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
...sort of political brawl that leaves the opposition smiling. In one corner was liberal Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who had successfully promoted repeal of the death penalty in France last year. In the other was his fellow Socialist, longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted...
...20th century, socialism as a visionary ideal has appealed to such diverse religious thinkers as Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich and the Catholic clergy who advocate a quasi-Marxist "liberation theology" in Latin America. "Any serious Christian must be a socialist," Tillich once said. Yet those who are hostile to capitalism, Novak writes, tend to compare its flaws in practice with a utopian vision of socialism, ignoring the reality that socialism in practice tends to be economically incoherent and politically repressive. Democratic socialism is a doomed dream because it ignores the "necessary connection between economic liberty and political liberty." A democratic...
Shown on national television by PBS, the film, says Bennett, was "unabashed socialist-realism propaganda" that should not have received public money. Bennett argued that the film presented a one-sided view of the Nicaragua story. One of the film's defenders, Wisconsin Humanities Chairman Morton Rothstein, says, "While I personally would have preferred a more 'balanced' presentation, I found it a stimulating presentation that shed light on a major public policy issue." But Bennett insists that the content and methods of Nicaragua Today "do not fall within the humanities...
...Gold Coast does not have smog, or terrorists, or a socialist government. Real estate prices are not out of sight. So, as Maggy Scherer, a third-generation Californian, who with her husband Allan a few years ago sold their Beverly Hills home to move their 36 ponies to a rustic compound called La Chacra (latino Spanish for Little Farm), points out: "People are leaving France. They're leaving Italy. This is the place." Some concede that cosmopolitanism can go too far. When the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner before a recent match, one woman demanded loudly: "Whose...