Word: socialists
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...name of a war victim was removed from a plaque in Memorial Church following the discovery that he had been a German. A Class of 1952 marshal was accused of being a socialist...
...Polls indicate that first-round voting on June 9 will qualify National Front candidates for the June 16 run-offs in over 200 of France's 577 legislative races - way up from the 1997 level of 75. Such triangulaire battles will pit the National Front against rivals from the Socialist Party led by François Hollande and the rightist groupings under the newly re-elected President Jacques Chirac. But a strong showing from the National Front could split the vote for the right, allowing the Socialists to capture parliament. That would saddle Chirac with another five years of cohabitation...
...Falun Gong on the mainland. Officials say the band isn't banned, but the same doesn't go for their even more popular Taiwanese TV series Meteor Garden, in which the F4 boys play spoiled rich kids who drive BMWs, chase girls and engage in other non-socialist behavior. The Beijing Youth Daily complained that the series gave teen viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society"-which, one might think, is pretty much the point of television. Nevertheless, the government banned what parents were calling "electronic heroin" after six episodes. That hasn't stopped thousands of mainland fans...
...March 19, 1998, another Syrian daily newspaper, Al-Baath—the official mouthpiece of the ruling al-Baath Arab Socialist Party—cautioned that “…[then Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is following in Hitler’s path...
...even as Washington's policy remains static, Cuban reality may be on the cusp of significant changes. Fidel Castro, who turned 75 last summer, may have outlasted nine U.S. presidents and everything from exploding cigars to botched invasions, but he cannot outwit time. Nor can the socialist economy he built largely on Soviet handouts resist the unsentimental forces of globalization that rule the post-Cold War world...