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Lilian Uchtenhagen was refused a seat on the Swiss Federal Council not because she was a woman but in spite of it [Feb. 6]. For the conservatives in the Swiss Parliament, she was too much of a leftist socialist. They preferred a more moderate candidate, who happened to be male. The fact that Uchtenhagen is female made it more difficult for the conservatives to vote against...
...world's news events piled atop each other with bewildering rapidity last week. Their character was remarkably varied: ominous, reassuring, inspirational, showy, frustrating. The death of the leader of the Soviet Union was announced, with all its implications for the future of that socialist superpower and its troubled relationship with the U.S. In the face of more violence and political uncertainty in Lebanon, President Reagan acted to redeploy the Marines. For the first time, men floated freely in the heavens, breaking away from the shuttle Challenger to become human satellites. In Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, the XIV Winter Olympics opened with...
...that her plane might not be able to land because of Budapest's "London fog." Then the small talk gave way to more serious matters: East-West relations, disarmament, the possibility of increased trade between the two countries, Kadar's experiments with free enterprise within a state socialist economy...
There are, of course, many Europeans committed to promoting racial understanding. Some have even begun to redirect national policies. France's Socialist government has cracked down heavily on illegal immigration, but it has also given priority to job training and housing programs for minorities. To ease the pain of the Peugeot layoffs, for instance, authorities are considering a program of retraining for workers who choose to stay in France and payments-perhaps as much as $4,700 each-to those who choose repatriation. Britain's Conservative government, whose anti-immigration policies have been denounced as "oppressive...
...recalls some advice given him when he was playing with the fine Cuban band Irakere in the mid-'70s. "If you want to keep playing bebop on your saxophone, you do it, but don't say it. Don't say jazz. Call it 'progressive Cuban socialist music,' and then you play bebop...