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...youths caught with 700,000 leaflets endorsing the protests. The arrest may have been a mistake. A crowd of 500 jammed Santiago's Supreme Court building to hear a lawyer read a statement signed by 1,000 prominent Chileans calling for Valdés' release. Said a Socialist politician: "The dictatorship has unwillingly made a national leader out of Gabriel Vald...
...servants who administer the city would be retained. In the course of the informal talks, China has even indicated that Hong Kong's Royal Jockey Club could continue its horse races, although "Royal" would of course have to be dropped from the club's title in a socialist society. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping promised last month that "no official will be sent from Peking to supervise or administer Hong Kong...
Despite the presence of 40,000 Vietnamese troops (and some 5,000 Soviet advisers), Laos has been struggling since 1979 to sustain a socialist course unfettered by Hanoi's doctrinaire style. When the Pathet Lao Communists took over in Vientiane in 1975 after the U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, they quickly forced the resignation of King Savang Vatthana and instituted hard-line Marxist policies that brought the country to the edge of ruin. Private trade was banned, the few existing factories were nationalized, and restrictions on private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went...
...loser was the opposition Japan Socialist Party, which gave up four of its 48 seats. Plagued by factional fighting, the Socialists alienated themselves from their constituents by arguing over such issues as whether Japan should opt for unarmed neutrality and break its longstanding security treaty with the U.S. The party failed to win a single seat in some of the largest districts, including Tokyo and Osaka. After the election, many members called for the resignation of Chairman Ichio Asukata, 68, who had led the group since...
...conventional arms: For a long time, the West has not been relying on its "conventional" armed forces as a means sufficient for repelling a potential aggressor. [In contrast] the U.S.S.R. and the other countries of the socialist camp have armies with great numerical strength and are rearming them intensively, sparing no resources. [So] it is necessary to restore parity in the field of conventional weapons [and that] is only possible by investing large resources and by an essential change in the psychological atmosphere in the West. In the final analysis this is necessary to prevent nuclear...