Word: socialistic
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...which of the competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other, Labor was showing the frayed edges of a party too long in power...
Some anti-Likud Israelis were worried about the domestic policies of the new government. It will certainly be more favorable to private enterprise than another Labor regime would be, with its pronounced socialist policies, but secular Jews feared that the religious parties might try to extend the influence of Orthodox rabbis over Israeli life?for example, by making Torah lessons compulsory in schools...
Walter Locke '71-4, who produced Avenue of the Americas, says he originally went to Chile in 1972 to see what was going on, to document the building of a socialist society. Produced by Locke, directed by Peruvian Jorge Reynes and written by Charles Horman '64 (one of two Americans killed during the 1973 coup), the film depicts those people who supported the U.P. coalition, recording their faith in Allende and his policies. When the truckers who formed the basis of Chile's infrastructure went on strike--supported by money from the CIA--these were the people who refused...
...another one that's more right-wing." The members of the upper class stand in sharp relief against the workers who point proudly to a director's house that is now a daycare center, and the people who describe the changes in their lives and speak hopefully of a socialist future. The legality of Allende's government did not mollify those who saw their positions threatened by social reforms...
...weeks ago, claimed that the case was part of a national racist conspiracy in the U.S. Pravda featured a jailhouse interview with Chavis and added that the U.S. press had ignored his appeal while devoting "whole pages to inventions about the so-called persecution of 'dissidents' in socialist countries...