Word: socialistic
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When the Peking-based ambassador of a Middle Eastern country received word that he would be allowed to visit Cambodia, he was delighted. After all, he could observe firsthand a new socialist society in the making. He could take his family on sightseeing excursions to the temple ruins of Angkor Wat. But the ambassador had not reckoned with the xenophobia of the fanatical rulers of Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia is called...
...unions' quiescence, however, provides no reassurance about what might happen if the left actually does win control of the government. The Socialist-Communist "common program," signed in 1972, calls for nationalization of all private banks and nine large, privately owned companies. Two of these are subsidiaries of U.S.-headquartered multinationals-Honeywell...
...economy is also in a race of sorts: how much it improves in the next few months-if it does at all-may determine whether a government that includes Communists comes to power as a result of the legislative elections that must be held by next March. True, the Socialist-Communist "union of the left" has been weakened by the inability of the two parties to agree last month on a revision of their joint program. But a poll published last week in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro indicates that the left is still ahead...
...Intimidation, fear, rotten living conditions for generations--these are the reasons worker organization at J.P. Stevens has failed and the boycott is necessary," Mike Schippani, an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, said last night at a gathering of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee...
...passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually their isolated agrarian community becomes a microcosm of a nation battered by Fascist, socialist and industrial revolutions...