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When the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party met for a three-day congress in Rangoon late last week, it was expected to focus on long-overdue economic reforms and a housecleaning of the organization's sclerotic bureaucracy. But General Ne Win, the wily strongman who has ruled Burma since 1962, had a surprise in store. In a nationally televised address after the congress convened, Ne Win, 77, offered his resignation as chairman of his insular country's only political party. He also called for a referendum within 60 days on ending the country's single-party government...
...hotel, I noticed hundreds if not thousands of people milling around the central Zocalo, or large metropolitan plaza, and half of them seemed to be passing out political propaganda. There were colorful political banners all around and a man was driving a van while proclaiming the merits of the Socialist candidate Cuahetomoc Cardenas through a megaphone on top of the vehicle. The opposition candidate directs his appeals to disaffected members of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) and workers...
Grabbing my camera and umbrella, I rain outside to the rally. While I did wind up talking with the man with a megaphone, whom I presume was a member of the Socialist party, I was upset to see so few people at the procession. For a city some claim is over 25 million strong, I thought, surely more than a few hundred people were in opposition to the PRI, which has been in power for decades...
...There must be some ideal that we have that would appeal to mankind," says Hideaki Kase, a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs officer and writer on security affairs. "Britain has the Magna Carta, France its Liberte. Americans have their Revolution. Even the Russians and the Chinese created socialist models to copy...
...lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...