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...hold a reasonably intimate dinner party these days. Monthly Review its fraternal twin, also stands in no danger of wielding influence. On this campus, only the Spartacus Youth League, that lunatic asterisk to every generalization, " defends" the USSR, and when the crackdown began in Warsaw, it was the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee that threw together a protest meeting, not the Conservative Club When one counts prominent American leftists--not a very time-consuming task--next to none come to mind who urge "communism" and most. Michael Harrington for instance, have at one time or another been notorious anti-Communist crusaders...
...explaining away some Sandinista atrocity or another there is very little in past history to give much credence to the dream that any of the current revolutions will produce a kind and pure worker's state entirely free of the defects that mar the rest of the socialist encampment...
...CONVENTION had to represent a stirring success for Drinan and the ADA. People pledged time and contributed money. The crowd was boisterous. Still, when the cheers had subsided in the conference rooms of the National Education Association and all that was left were scattered pamphlets for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and photographs of Senators Paul Tsongas and Gary Hart, one was left with a feeling of emptiness...
...again it has the manpower and the money. If the ADA is to succeed, however, it must not hide behind the mantle of Roosevelt but take it proudly, not afraid to dip into the ranks of the intellectuals and come up with new proposals, whether neo-liberal or neo-socialist...
...candidacy for the job of local conseiller général (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards and pumped-up rallies. "Those," observes Giscard, "are simply not the local Style...