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...first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power, they vow to outlaw alcohol, segregate the sexes and impose Shari'a, creating a society dramatically different from the socialist state built more than three decades ago by nationalist revolutionaries...
While most Algerians profess to be devout Muslims, they do not wish to see the tyranny of socialism replaced by a tyranny of mullahs. But they do want to be led out of the country's political and economic chaos. Since 1962, the socialist National Liberation Front, which led the fight for independence, has ruled. The party lost credibility as its ideology failed to supply the European standard of living Algerians want...
Matic's comrades-in-arms accused the Serbian government of organizing the murder. At the funeral last week, Vuk Draskovic, leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, the main opposition party, blamed the republic's ruling Socialist -- formerly Communist -- Party, headed by President Slobodan Milosevic. The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a denial and added that uttering such accusations was illegal...
Take the example of Paradise, a farm that lies at the end of a dusty red road on the fertile plain south of Havana. A white bust of Lenin marks the entrance. By day Paradise is where Cuba's young dirty their hands with the real work of the socialist revolution, weeding, hoeing and harvesting in fields planted with banana trees. But by night it seems more of a '60s hippie commune, with parties in the "club," El Mosquito Picante (The Spicy Mosquito) and stolen kisses in the thatched hut out back...
...leftist South West Africa People's Organization from winning a commanding victory in pre-independence elections in neighboring Namibia in 1989. Pretoria's support of at least seven parties opposed to SWAPO may have prevented the organization from gaining the two- thirds majority it needed to introduce a socialist constitution...