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...member House of Representatives on the same day as previously scheduled balloting for the 252-seat House of Councillors. His goal: smashing victories in both chambers that would persuade the Liberal Democrats to award him an unprecedented third term as head of the party and nation. Said a Socialist member of the Diet: "This is Nakasone's power grab...
...authorizing the use of lethal force against the prisoners, Garcia underscored his determination to defeat the Shining Path. The radical group had timed the insurrections to humiliate the President while prominent world figures were in Lima for a congress of the Socialist International, an organization of socialist and social-democratic parties. The gathering was held in Peru to recognize efforts by Garcia's center-left government to stabilize the country's economy, which has been crippled by the falling prices of oil, copper and other major exports...
Spaniards responded by giving the Socialists 44% of the vote and 184 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament. While the seat total was 18 fewer than in the 1982 landslide, the party kept its legislative majority. "These results confirm that we have been following the right track," said Gonzalez. Yet the party's swerve toward the center created some doubters. Many of the lost Socialist seats were picked up by the Democratic and Social Center Party of Adolfo Suarez, which boosted its representation from two seats to 19. Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister after...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
...Mandalay are the very picture of mysterious beauty. Their girlish tresses are dark and lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet from Private School. Farrah, Christie, even local actresses hardly get a look-in. Unlike many American fan letters, reports Cates...