Word: socialists
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DIED. WALT ROSTOW, 86, easygoing yet hawkish adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson whose unfailing optimism about U.S. involvement in Vietnam helped propel the war; in Austin, Texas. The son of a Socialist, he coined Kennedy's campaign slogan, Let's Get This Country Moving Again. The onetime M.I.T. economics professor saw the war primarily as a means of ensuring modernization and development in Southeast Asia. He never publicly regretted his position, saying in 1986, "I'm not obsessed with Vietnam, and I never was. I don't spend much time worrying about that period...
...still faces heavy criticism from his party's left wing, led by Oskar Lafontaine, who resigned as Finance Minister during Schröder's first term due to - you guessed it - disagreement over the need for reforms. Lafontaine argues that the SPD was defeated because it was not socialist enough. "It's called neoliberalism wrapped in red cotton wool," Lafontaine wrote in the Bild tabloid. "The reason for the disaster of my party is the policy it has pursued since 1999." The left wing's position has been greatly weakened since the election, though, because the need to appease...
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?...