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...Saturday morning's discussion of procedural rules, the conference's veneer of harmony is shattered. The charge surfaces that the conference has been packed by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and their youth wing, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA). "The black community was not involved in the organization of this conference," asserts Vivien Morris '75, a member of a coalition of black and third-world groups. However, most of the people favor the conference's set-up. By the time the plenary session is adjourned, the tone of the conference has been set. The debates are long and boring...
...lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes." Consider, for instance, only a few of the transactions announced within the past two weeks...
...preservation of exactly the same kind of subsistence farming in the present. Blessed with a shore line that attracts international trawlers, Ireland has never launched a fishing industry. "Socialism," O'Hanlon writes, "is a nasty word in Ireland, yet it is difficult to think of a non-socialist economic structure where the government's presence is so pervasive." The government encourages undisciplined stock and real estate speculation. No law prevents politicians from voting on measures that might enrich them. The price of land skyrocketed 2,700% between 1960 and 1973, while the population remained static...
...Portuguese Socialist Party (P.S.P.) draws its support from the upper and middle classes, civil servants and students. It favors limited nationalization of basic industries, agrarian reform, and keeping Portugal in NATO. Party Leader Soares, 50, who spent six years in exile in Paris before the revolution, has emerged as one of the country's most respected politicians for his role in negotiating the decolonization of Portugal's African territories...
...follow the model of development of the powerful American economy, but also to search for forms of [social] orchestration more in harmony with a poor people. We are looking for new markets outside the U.S.-in Western Europe, Japan, the People's Republic of China and other socialist countries...