Word: socialists
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Haider: I expected a wave of protest. The more successful we have been, the more the socialist party organized the protest around the world against us. They told terrible stories...
...Austria actually breaks with E.U. policy, however, isolation of Vienna is unlikely to go beyond such symbolic gestures as Israel's withdrawing its ambassador. And in a bid to assuage the critics, Haider has signed a statement saying Austria accepts her responsibility for "the horrendous crimes of the National Socialist regime." But Vienna will be measured less by what's in its history textbooks than by what's on its statute books, and the democratic choice of 27 percent of Austrians may have done their country's image irreparable harm...
DIED. BETTINO CRAXI, 65, Italy's first postwar socialist leader from 1983 to 1987; in Tunisia. He later faced charges of corruption...
...impoverished, India's economy is essentially self-sufficient compared with Pakistan's, which remains a basket case. And despite the fragility of its coalition governments of recent years, India is a stable democracy, while Pakistan has been perennially plagued by military coups and religious extremism. "Its socialist attitudes have hamstrung economic development, but India is a forward-looking democracy," says Dowell. "Pakistan remains a more feudal society whose political elites have kept it mired in its own mess." Given its population size, economic potential and strategic significance, India wants to be thought of as being in the same league...
...Englishmen have been drinking tea, wearing khaki, playing polo and using words such as "pajama," "pundit" and "pariah" (all of which were imported from the Raj). Dowell concurs: "Despite its vast potential and wealth of human capital, U.S. investors see the country hamstrung by the remnants of a socialist administration - realizing the vast potential of this relationship will require that the U.S. be educated about what India really is, but also that India overcome the internal factors that have restrained its growth. When it does, it will be a major power...