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...Soviet history. He partly restored the reputation of Khrushchev, who died in disgrace 16 years ago, following his ouster in 1964. "It required no small courage of the party and its leadership, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, to criticize ((Stalin's)) personality cult and its consequences and to re-establish socialist legality," Gorbachev told the 5,000 Soviet officials and foreign dignitaries assembled before him in the cavernous modern hall. Khrushchev, who tried to launch decentralizing reforms similar to Gorbachev's, had not been publicly named by a Soviet leader in more than two decades...
...independent." He stressed this point again in an address to foreign delegates two days later, renouncing the "arrogance of omniscience" that he said had formerly governed Moscow's ties with its Communist allies. Gorbachev's statements appeared to rescind the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, proposing intervention in defense of socialist regimes, that was used to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...merchant bank Paribas, the telecommunications giant CGE and the large commercial bank Societe Generale. The idea has started to catch on elsewhere. In Portugal, where state businesses have sucked $13 billion in operating losses and subsidies from the economy since the leftist revolution of 1974, the new Social Democratic socialist government of Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva has promised similar reforms...
...September 22 preliminaries saw a low voter turnout, a small field of candidates and a wide margin of popular support for the incumbent. Flynn took 70 percent of the vote to Tierney's 27 percent in that election, which eliminated a Socialist and a follower of Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche...
Quick, what's Greek for Gary Hart? Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 68, may need to know. For more than a month there have been parallels between the scandal that enveloped the former U.S. presidential candidate and the furor over the amorous antics of Greece's leader, who has been married for 36 years. The cause of the fuss: Dimitra Liani, a sultry stewardess in her early 30s and the Prime Minister's frequent companion...