Word: socialistic
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...political spectrum-House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts and New Right Guardian Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina-came the pronouncement that Reagan's economic initiative was on the "right track," although Helms later criticized Reagan's support for what he called the "leftwing socialist" Duarte government and its land reform policies. Said leading House Liberal Stephen Solarz of New York: "An ounce of prevention now is worth ten pounds of cure later on. If we had had programs like this before, we wouldn't be in trouble...
...hard-liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...
...executive of France's Rhone-Poulenc chemical and fiber conglomerate. Applauded the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro: "It seems that realism has finally overcome ideology." Even Pierre Charpy, a spokesman for the opposition Rally for the Republic Party, conceded that the long-dreaded move by the Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand was "not a scandal...
...exhaling followed the government's formal takeover last week of Rhone-Poulenc and four other industrial groups, with total 1980 sales of $46 billion, plus 23 banking and financial institutions, and the appointment of 27 men and one woman to head the nationalized firms. Yet those captains of socialist industry looked much like their capitalist predecessors. In fact, at two firms, they were the very same faces, and at most of the others they might as well have been...
...Alain Gomez, 43, a graduate of the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.) and onetime Harvard Business School student, who will lead Thomson-Brandt, an electronics and home appliance firm. A founder of the Socialist Party's vocal left wing, Gomez is probably the most ideological of the appointees. But his training and twelve years' experience as an executive at the newly nationalized Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, a diversified glassmaker, give him impeccable business credentials...