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...country, the government talks up economic reform and democratic elections, as yet unscheduled but expected to be held in February or March. Newspapers are filled with announcements, widely ignored or disbelieved, of new rules encouraging private enterprise and foreign investment, and Burma is no longer officially termed a socialist republic...
...spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning for one of Kennedy's opponents (State Rep. Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...
...over that Sept. 11 attack at St. John Bosco Church in the capital of Port-au-Prince provoked an army revolt that installed the new regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. The atrocity added considerably to the mystique surrounding the slight, bespectacled 35-year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...
...Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then followed...
...Coop entered the fray by opening stores on some of the highest-priced real estate in the city (Kendall Square, Longwood Ave., and Federal Street) and expecting to cash in on the market. But the Coop lacked any gimmick to attract shoppers other than high prices and a socialist-sounding name...