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...novel predicts a Giscard-Socialist alliance...
Thus begins a new novel called The Revolution of 1980. Its bestselling author is the pseudonymous "Philippe de Cormmines," whose cleverly futuristic The 180 Days of Mitterrand last year foreshadowed the rupture in the Socialist-Communist alliance. In Commines's new work, Giscard refuses to give in; at 6 a.m. three SAM II missiles transform the Eiffel Tower into a hulk of twisted steel. Responsibility is claimed by a terrorist group that calls itself Society Against the State. To restore his government's credibility, the President tries a dramatic gesture: he appoints Michel Rocard, a charismatic economist...
Four Harvard groups are among those co-sponsoring the demonstration. They are the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), the Harvard Lawyer's Guild and the Friends of the United Farm Workers...
Some unkind critics might think that Rumania's party boss, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was trying to encourage a, well, cult of personality. Bronze heads and busts cast in his image dot the country. He has twice been declared a Hero of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. His uniform as commander in chief of the Rumanian armed forces is encrusted with medals. He has been acclaimed in the adulatory party press for "exceptional creativeness in philosophy, political economy, history, education, science and culture." Now, as a fitting cap to this imposing catalogue of achievements, awards and encomiums, the diminutive...
Down came the technological slogans in the square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls...