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...word stumbles awkwardly off the tongue, all 16 didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the above. But if a new group of centrist academics -- sociologists, political scientists and law professors -- has its way, the term will soon take a place among the important isms that shape the U.S. political dialogue...
...short term. "There is absolutely no way that those expectations will be met," says Kehla Shubane, 32, a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand. Under optimal conditions, it could take South Africa between five and 10 years to begin making tangible progress. If adopted, the A.N.C.'s socialist-oriented economic proposals -- popular with the lost generation -- would only postpone material improvement...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
During the night, Baghdad was struck by the latest in a series of punishing raids, one of which damaged the headquarters of the country's ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party. AP correspondent Salah Nasrawi in Baghdad said the building was apparently vacannt at the time of the allied attack...
...powers in the hands of the federal government. It forbade anyone from interfering with military operations (a provision that was interpreted quite liberally) and empowered Postmaster General Albert Burleson to close the mail system to groups deemed subversive. Under the act's provisions, Burleson prevented more than a dozen socialist journals from circulating and blocked individual issues of a number of other magazines...