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After debate started in the early 1990s over whether a shorter work week would bring about a reduction in unemployment rates, members of France’s Socialist party repeatedly tried to pass legislation creating the 35-hour work week...
...Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned him to ask for "more balanced" treatment. Le Floch-Prigent and Sirven haven't named names, and Chirac himself has not been implicated in the case, but the sums are substantial. Le Floch-Prigent estimated Elf handed out about $5 million per year to the political parties...
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Taubman's exploration of Khrushchev's complicity in Stalinist horror is probing, subtle. "Like many others," Taubman writes, "Khrushchev thought he was building a new socialist society, a glorious end that justified even the harshest means." So he "practiced deception and self-deception. He never fully owned up to his complicity." Touching a chillingly familiar chord, Taubman explains, "His complicity in great crimes ... was tied to nothing less than his own sense of self-worth, to his growing feeling of dignity, to the invigorating, intoxicating conviction that Stalin, a man he came almost to worship...
...fact, the Bedouins wouldn't be much affected by sanctions. They are a self-contained economic unit, and throughout history have managed to maintain a substantial wealth in livestock. A more plausible explanation for the poverty is that Saddam's totalitarian government is attempting to run a socialist economic model: there is no reason, after all, for people to accumulate wealth if Saddam's government is going to take everything from them...
...petitioned successfully to be transferred. But in 1999, according to his family, he was forced to go back to Andoain, to be subjected anew to threatening letters, graffiti, and to two of his cars being burned. "My brother knew he was going to die," says Maite, a former Socialist member of the Basque parliament. "His torture was permanent." So, it might be said, is that of the Basque country. ETA has killed 800 people since 1968; another two dozen were killed in the mid-1980s by the shady, Spanish-government-linked death squads of GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups...