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...time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Perón two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign embassies knew the coup was coming, and they welcomed it. Military officers explicitly declared that they were to change everything...
...Last month, on the sunday when Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual National People's Congress with a speech about building a "new socialist countryside," Yu headed for the town of Changgou, in a rural district of Beijing, "to try to save some trees." Friends in the district government had phoned with news that Changgou had announced it would bulldoze several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience...
...many Israelis, this vote wasn?t just about the big picture - dealing with a hostile Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza. It was also about more personal issues: as Israel drifts away from its socialist origins of collective farms and all-embracing welfare towards bustling capitalism, it has ignored the poorer folks left behind. That, say analysts, explains the voters? tilt to parties such as Labor, led by Moroccan-born Amir Peretz, which focused its campaign on social inequalities, and the parties such as Shas and Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities...
...turns out that she may also be the last one. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, China's chief broadcast regulator, last week issued new rules governing Idol-inspired shows. The directive says contests should contribute to "constructing a harmonious socialist society ... [They] must not make a hubbub about things as they please and must avoid creating stars." These restrictions may or may not prevent Super Girl from securing permission to air, but they're certain to cramp the show's style...
...Sarkozy's stance on the labor law was immediately plucked up by Socialist leader and possible presidential candidate Fran?ois Hollande, who mocked de Villepin in parliament, saying, "There's doubt on this within your own government--it's sitting right next to you!" Sarkozy's new position on the strike, Reyni? notes, could hurt Villepin's leadership credentials, give new life to the lefist opposition and ultimately hurt Sarkozy's presidential ambitions as well. "The problem is, that's exactly what traditional conservative votes don't want any more," Reyni? says of Sarkozy's comments on the labor dispute. "They...