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Indeed, Weiss and other liberals argued for placing similar conditions on the Salvadoran aid approved last week. The concern in the White House, on the other hand, was whether Duarte's socialist tendencies might lead him to provoke El Salvador's landed oligarchy and their allies in the military. During an Oval Office chat, Duarte reassured Reagan that he was not hostile to private enterprise...
...exiled in 1980. French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais said that sources "at the highest level" had implied to him that Sakharov, who has a history of heart disease, was in "satisfactory" health and under regular observation at a Gorky clinic. Later the Soviet Ambassador to France told Socialist Party Leader Lionel Jospin that Bonner and Sakharov were well and in their Gorky apartment. Neither account persuaded Tatyana Yankelevich, Bonner's daughter by her first marriage. Said she: "We can not exclude the possibility that Sakharov is no longer alive...
...largest and most profitable corporations in the U.S. has been run for nearly 20 years by an avowed Socialist. The company is Schlumberger (1983 revenues: $5.8 billion), a leading oilfield-services firm. The executive is Frenchman Jean Riboud, who is profiled in The Art of Corporate Success (Putnam; 184 pages; $15.95) by Writer Ken Auletta. Riboud, 64, is a corporate enigma. A hardheaded capitalist in business matters, he is nevertheless a confidant of Socialist French President François Mitterrand...
...give the appearance of doing something about joblessness. In Holland, where the commitment to the shorter week is strongest, the government has pressed for fewer hours by a formula that would also cut pay. Yet Dutch unemployment is still 14.9%, among the highest in Europe. In 1982 the new Socialist government of François Mitterrand cut the French work week by an hour, to 39 hours, but it is backing off from a promise to lower...
What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky's long, semipolemical play Summerfolk by adding Gershwin songs. After last week's opening of the hybrid, the answer is, alas, all too apparent: Gorky and Gershwin have nothing in common except Sellars himself...