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This spring she will examine the transition of the Russian media from an ideological instrument of a socialist society to a free press...
MADRID, SPAIN: Thursday's indictment of former Spanish interior minister Jose Barrionuevo on charges that he ordered the killing and kidnapping of Basque separatists could signal the end of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez's 14-year reign. "This announcement is a slap in the face to Gonzalez and his party," reports TIME's Jane Walker from Madrid. "People have a hard time believing that Gonzalez did not know about the death squads. But the Prime Minister has given no indication that he will take Barrionuevo's name off a candidate list for the March 3 national elections. Gonzalez...
...liberation, he was elected to the National Assembly, and between 1947 and 1957 he held 11 Cabinet positions. But with Charles de Gaulle's ascension to the leadership of France, Mitterrand began a quarter-century in the opposition. Flanked by the Gaullists and the Communists, he forged the French Socialist Party from the motley fragments of the non-Communist left. In 1981 he finally captured the presidency with the promise of an economic renaissance for the recession-bound country. In power for the first time since 1936, the Socialists launched a veritable revolution, nationalizing banks, raising the minimum wage...
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigend his post Monday after two months in the hospital for pneumonia and heart trouble, each day of which created new speculation that he was near death. Under its constitution, the ruling socialist party now has three days to elect a new premier. The top contenders for his post are two economists, Defense Minister Gerasimos Arsenis and former Industry Minister Costas Simitis. The 76-year-old Papandreou, who has been on and off life support, reportedly signed the resignation from his hospital bed in Athens. He did not quit as head of the party...
...political parties have joined forces to ensure trade minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's victory as Japan's next prime minister in Thursday's parliamentary vote. United against New Frontier Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, the coalition is comprised of Hashimoto's conservative Liberal Democrats, the centrist Sakigake party, and the leftist Socialists. "What unifies these parties primarily is the desire to avoid scheduling elections," notes Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "The bargain was originally to let a Socialist be prime minister; now it's the LDP's turn." Hashimoto has gained popularity and a reputation as a tough negotiator after participating...