Word: socialistic
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...National Socialist White Peoples Party...
...Kings, Sheiks, Emirs, Presidents and other chieftains (or their stand-ins) from 59 nations, plus leaders of the P.L.O. and several African liberation groups, were quartered in the city's main hotels. From the Nile Hilton, they could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded the Hilton's roof and stairways. In short, the delegates were protected from everything, suggested a local wit, except the hotel's mayonnaise...
...same time, I get the feeling, since we are in the age of symbols, that McCarthy will make his imprint on the real world. They tell this story about Norman Thomas, who like McCarthy, spent most of his middle years running for president as the candidate of the Socialist Party. He gave a speech, after declining the Socialist's nomination to be their candidate for what must have been the fifth or sixth time. He stood up in front of a gathering of young radicals and read a platform that most probably took as either a joke or a sign...
...Nyerere, 55, who led his country to independence 16 years ago, the simmering guerrilla war in Rhodesia overshadows matters much closer to home. Besides the problem of his socialist nation's faltering economy, he is confronted with the collapse of the East African Community that bound Tanzania with neighboring Kenya and Uganda in economic union, and the open hostility of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada, who accuses him of plotting an "invasion" in cahoots with former Ugandan President Milton Obote. Nonetheless, the future of southern Africa remains Nyerere's main concern, as he made clear in an hour...
...have chosen the socialist path, but we are still miles away from success. My people are poor and ignorant. They still have to drink dirty water. Every day we are telling our people what they deserve, but we do not have the managerial or financial ability to provide it. We could do much better...