Word: socialists
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Bolivia’s brush with disintegration and violent socialist insurrection should remind the U.S. to retain an active interest in nations that have been paying the high prices of America’s market-based reforms. The U.S. cannot afford to leave these countries without help in emergency situations and without advice on, and support for, long-term growth...
...After the Scandal PORTUGAL A court released senior Socialist Party lawmaker Paulo Pedroso, who spent four months in preventive custody in connection with a pedophile scandal involving state-run children's homes. Pedroso, who is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, resumed his seat in parliament after the body's ethics committee reinstated him. Predictable Poll CHECHNYA Kremlin-backed candidate Akhmad Kadyrov was elected President with more than 80% of the vote. His victory was widely expected as his main rivals were pressured into withdrawing early in the race...
...from the national calendar to fund programs for the elderly provoked hardly a whimper of protest. But his method of quietly forcing change leaves many longing for a clearer sense of direction. "He manages and manages and manages, but he doesn't inspire!" moans Bernard Kouchner, the flamboyant former Socialist Minister of Health. That complaint doesn't just come from the usual suspects, either. "There's no overarching unity, no clarity, no sense that it's all part of a single effort with a final goal and reason," says Jacques Bille, a communications expert and former adviser to conservative Prime...
...majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn't so much for reform as for stopping Le Pen. But that doesn't mean it can afford to spin its wheels. "If this government sits and waits things out," he says, "it risks exhausting public patience, and finally convincing...
...Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s. One reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks, of course, but it was the artists - impassioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring...