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Question: What do these people have in common: former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, French Health Minister Simone Veil, British Socialist Barbara Castle, Ulster's Protestant Minister Ian Paisley and Otto von Habsburg, eldest son of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor...
...France, the debacle began when Party Boss Marchais broke with the "Common Program" of the Socialist-Communist coalition, thereby dooming it to defeat in last year's general election. That fateful choice was based on the Communists' decision that they would not take a back seat to the dominant Socialists if the leftist coalition came to power. Marchais concluded that the Socialists would hog the credit for major social and economic reforms, thereby suggesting to workers that they no longer needed the Communists to defend their interests...
...Spain, the party led by Carrillo, the boldest of the Eurocommunist bosses, raised its share of the popular vote from 9% to 10% in this year's national election. Since then, Carrillo has become involved in a tenuous opposition alliance with the far more popular Socialist Party. It is generally thought that the Communists, with 100,000 or so members, are blocked from sharing in national power by popular fears of a dangerous right-wing reaction...
Viet Nam, which once touted itself as a model of socialist development, has become a troubled pariah. It is only now recovering slowly from the bloody but inconclusive border war with China. Although the repressive regime of Cambodia's Premier, Pol Pot, has been driven out of Phnom Penh, Vietnamese forces are bogged down in what appears to be a protracted guerrilla war in Cambodia...
...meteoric rise in oil prices have made the Third World a more disparate group of nations than ever. For many of them, the catchall appellation of less-developed countries (LDCs) has become outdated or at least incomplete. New subclassifications have become necessary: advanced-developing countries and least-developed countries; socialist LDCs and neocapitalist LDCs; non-oil LDCs and OPEC LDCs...