Word: socialists
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...work at a newspaper, and if you dislike the few items of junkmail that turn up each day in your mailbox, you should see the baskets of junkmail that we get at newspapers. There are announcements from banks, luring offers from syndication companies, free issues of socialist newletters, poetry, notices from credit card card companies prepared to honor various reporters with their very own American Express, and buckets of press releases crafted by the public relations industry to resemble news. After the news editor has combed out the few snippets of honest-to-goodness news from the pile, he hands...
...Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
...about to let them get away with long-winded, cliche-laden speeches. Where past Kremlin meetings greeted boiler-plate presentations with perfunctory outbursts of applause, this one constantly interrupted party ideologist Vadim Medvedev's lackluster presentation with insolent rhythmic clapping. When chief economist Leonid Abalkin warned delegates that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch to a market economy, he was greeted with derision. The warmest ovation was saved for conservative hero Yegor Ligachev, who fired up the audience with an attack on "thoughtless radicalism...
Tourism Minister Olivier Stirn, who sponsored the symposium, blamed overzealous Socialist Party members for the blunder. Commented a headline in the daily Liberation: RIDICULE CAN BE FATAL. The words proved prophetic. Later that day the Prime Minister's office announced Stirn's resignation...
East Germans have a great deal of catching up to do, but they are trying. Hardly was the Wall down when a trickle of East Berliners and Leipzigers and Dresdeners appeared on the Champs Elysees and the Via Veneto. Long confined to holidays within the socialist bloc -- beaches on the Black Sea or the chilly waters of the Baltic -- thousands of Easterners will no doubt soon set out for venues of the dolce vita, the requisite deutsche marks in their pockets...