Word: socialistic
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...helmet. Even a foreigner is subject to this seemingly omniscient force. After a week in Buenos Aires, one noticed a man following her. When she pointed him out to friends, they frowned. "He's been following us for months. He probably thinks you're smuggling arms or socialist literature...
...hard to find anyone there, and especially in Poland, who believes the official mythology that states run by Communist parties are actually operated for the benefit of the workers. Party officials will sometimes try to keep a straight face when explaining why workers are so much better off in socialist societies, but they do not really believe it themselves. After a sympathetic wink or a good-natured 'Come on, now,' they will let you understand that they are simply passing on the obligatory line." The solemn Communist theology about workers controlling the means of production is contemptuously dismissed...
...nationalist focus is its moral and financial support of female leftist guerrillas in neighboring E1 Salvador. Reyes notes that "these women are going through a similar process to that which we did. And it is in Nicaragua's interests to help groups fighting to establish other Central American socialist states...
...same time, the government intensified a propaganda campaign against the strikes. On Wednesday the party daily Trybuna Ludu warned of "national catastrophe" if the walkouts continued and pointedly noted that "our country lies in the direct security zone of the world socialist power-the Soviet Union." Mieczyslaw Rakowski, influential editor of the party periodical Polityka, declared on national television: "I am very frightened. Our country is in a precarious position. Our national survival is at stake...
...been the leader of U.S. auto-workers since 1977. Born the son of working-class parents in Glasgow, he came to Detroit when he was six. Fraser began his union career in 1935 while loading fenders for Chrysler in a De Soto plant. Though an avowed Western European-style socialist, he is also a member of the Chrysler board of directors. Says the union boss: "Before I went to Japan last spring, I asked the president of Volkswagen of America if I could still say the quality of Volkswagens built in Pennsylvania is as good as that of the ones...