Word: socialists
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Contrary to July weather tradition, San Sebastian awoke last Thursday to a cloudy sky. Still, many Basques - and Spaniards - may have greeted the day as one of bright hope, as leaders of the Basque Socialist Party, the local branch of Spain's ruling Socialist Party, and Batasuna, an illegal party traditionally considered the political wing of the violent separatist group ETA, met at a local hotel to discuss a scenario for ending more than 30 years of conflict that had cost almost 1,000 lives. For most people in this resort town on the Bay of Biscay, these talks represent...
...Since his March 2004 election, Zapatero has led a virtual revolution in social policy in once-devoutly Catholic Spain, legalizing gay marriage, easing divorce and encouraging stem-cell research. The 45-year-old Socialist leader has become the smiling symbol of Old Europe's rising secularism. Benedict may have had ?Zapatero's Spain" in mind when, on the eve of the conclave that chose him to replace Pope John Paul II, he denounced ?the dictatorship of relativism" in a powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear...
...murky Clearstream affair, then let his frustration boil over in the face of charges that he was too eager to protect embattled EADS co-ceo Noël Forgeard in the face of expensive Airbus production delays and an investigation into the propriety of stock sales. When Socialist leader François Hollande said Villepin inspired "no confidence," the Prime Minister summoned his most arrogant tone, saying: "I denounce the easiness, and I say it to your face, the cowardice in your attitude." The next day he took it back, but the sense of a government on edge remained. While...
...town folk, urban reformers of every ilk, crusaders for peace and women's suffrage, champions of the little guy. They were less a movement than a catch basin for civic-minded men and women impatient with politics as usual but a bit frightened of Eugene V. Debs and his Socialist Party. While many Progressives could not see past their pet causes, T.R. managed to bring them together in a big tent held aloft by the idea that the government, which ought to serve the people, had been hijacked by special interests. "To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy...
...optimistic? Maybe so, given India's stop-and-start efforts to open up its once-socialist economy, where for decades domestic manufacturers were so sheltered from competition by tariffs and a restrictive licensing regime that one of the best-selling cars was the Ambassador, a rattletrap sedan first manufactured by Hindustan Motors in 1957 and still sold today. Due to years of underinvestment, much of India's manufacturing base is just as outmoded as the Ambassador, and many of the problems that have kept investors at bay red tape, corruption, outmoded transport links and unreliable electrical power remain...