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...sometimes it seems that in the West, and especially in the U.S., there is also room for opening and restructuring. Armchair warriors exist not only in our socialist world but in the capitalist one. The difference is that ours build their careers on uncritical pro-Sovietism and yours build their careers on blind anti-Sovietism. John F. Kennedy was right when he said that the real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop...
...members must have realized that this was a speech they could not afford to sleep through. Though Gorbachev went on for some three hours, there was hardly a dull moment. The General Secretary of the Communist Party had a bracing message for his colleagues in the Kremlin: the Soviet socialist system is a mess and must be fixed. As if that were not bad enough, Gorbachev went on, "it is the leading bodies of the party and the state that bear the responsibility for all this...
...Tambo, who defended the use of violence on several occasions during his two-week U.S. visit, countered that the time for passive resistance to white oppression had passed. Said he: "We hope we can establish the same relationship between the U.S. that we have with European and even socialist countries." After 50 minutes the two agreed only on their mutual interest in ending the system of apartheid...
Much of the credit goes to the pragmatic Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, 44, who is now in his fifth year in office. Gonzalez has offered generous investment incentives to both domestic and foreign companies. These subsidies often include grants amounting to as much as 30% of a firm's capital outlays, as well as tax breaks that increase with the number of Spanish workers hired. Under the government's direction, many once sclerotic state-owned companies are selling off parts of their operations or forming joint ventures with private firms. Most important, by leading his country...
...government agents with false beards or other disguises. The gem of these was surely the Greenpeace affair of 1985, in which two teams of French secret service frogmen blew up a trawler belonging to the environmental organization Greenpeace in Auckland harbor. The resulting international uproar shook Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government and forced the sacking of its intelligence chief and the resignation of its Defense Minister. Unlike Iranscam, however, that was the extent of it. Parliament never pursued it further. Indeed, the two French agents jailed by New Zealand until last July are now regarded as heroes...