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Violence is necessary to transform modern society into a new, better society, Ahmed K. Shawki of the International Socialist Organization told the audience at a meeting of the Harvard/Radcliffe Socialist Forum yesterday...
Gorbachev's choice of France for his first official trip to the West was shrewd. Under Mitterrand, the country has continued to demonstrate its long- standing status as the most independent-minded of the Western allies. The Socialist President has publicly taken issue with Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars. There is also a historic precedent for special ties between Paris and Moscow, nurtured by the late Charles de Gaulle and continued by his successors as a means of enhancing France's role in world affairs...
...Premier's admission further aroused public indignation. Three days later, Fabius again went before TV cameras to answer the explosive question: Who had actually ordered the attack that caused the death of a Greenpeace photographer, provoked a diplomatic crisis with New Zealand and tarnished the moral authority of the Socialist government? The answer, according to Fabius, was former Defense Minister Charles Hernu, who had resigned five days before, and Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, the cashiered intelligence chief. "It is at their level that I place the responsibility," Fabius declared...
...destroy the intelligence services. I have now sealed off those services. From now on, anything you hear in the press does not come from intelligence agents." That suggested, as both Fabius and Hernu have hinted before, that the DGSE operation ordered against Greenpeace might have been sabotaged by anti-Socialist elements within the intelligence services in order to embarrass the government...
...good dose of macabre humor from the dreariness of this household and the deluded egotism of its inhabitants. Jasper's manner as a public speaker, seen through the clammy mist of Alice's adoration, yields an acid portrait: "His style was to use the familiar phrases of the socialist ) lexicon, but as though he had only just that moment discovered them, so that when he began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble, and the novel shows them...