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Sept. 11, 1973 GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, left, deposes Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende, right, who commits suicide. The CIA, which had organized a failed coup in 1970, encouraged Pinochet but denies direct involvement to this...
NEPAL In From the Cold Maoist rebels and the government agreed to a ceasefire and peace talks to end violence in which at least 7,000 people have died. The rebels began an insurgency in 1996 to overthrow the constitutional monarchy and establish a socialist state. The Nepalese government agreed to stop calling the rebels "terrorists" and to cancel rewards for their arrest. But officials refused to give details about either the time or place of talks...
...sprayed with champagne following the end of exams (although this is officially banned due to the apparent dangers of popping corks); and at Freshers Fair (known to you as Freshman Week) one political society advertises itself with the moniker: ‘Be a socialite, not a socialist. Drink from eight.’ And then there are the capacious pubs. But I suppose that the downside is that all this drinking is suicide for our?...
...games begin outside the handsome Guangdong Museum of Art at 38 Yanyu Lu, Ersha Island, where large, red letters that read IN GOD WE TRUST are poised above sculptor Wang Guangyi's bulky, socialist-realist statues of heroic workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living...
...just their production facilities but their entire companies. Hans Brach, who owns an air-conditioning company that employs 50 workers, says he is seriously considering moving his headquarters to Switzerland or the Czech Republic. "If conditions [in Germany] continue, we will end up in a state administered by socialist principles and the free market will be controlled by the state," says Brach, who has fought against a German law that requires him to set up a factory council that includes workers' representatives. "I don't want to have anyone interfering in my company," he says. Brach's path...