Word: socialistic
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...hope the French can make real progress with their new Socialist government. It's about time a country outside the Third World cuts the puppet strings...
Thus the leaders will have to devote much time simply to getting acquainted. Mitterrand is particularly eager to arrange a private tête-à-tête with Reagan, essentially to feel out whether a French Socialist can find some common ground with an American conservative. The leaders will have seven or eight hours to themselves during the two-day meeting, not counting formal sessions with their aides...
...Premier outlines a sweeping blueprint for Socialist reform...
...will do exactly what we said we would dono more no less." With those words, spoken from the gilded rostrum of France's National Assembly last week, Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy unveiled his government's program for transforming the country's social and economic landscape. The only real surprise was Mauroy's determination, at the behest of President François Mitterrand, to act quickly on the basic planks of the Socialists' electoral platform: nationalization of banks and a number of industries, decentralization of the nation's administrative machinery, and reform...
...they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...