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...Warsaw, Moody has also noted the rigors of life in a socialist-bloc country. Says he: "We Western correspondents don't face hardships anything like those borne daily by Poles, but we do have some inconveniences. The hot water in my neighborhood hasn't been on for three weeks. When I mentioned this to the building superintendent, he saw the silver lining: 'The cold water works...
...conservative tide is running in some parts of Europe, Spain certainly is bucking it. For the first time since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal elections, to the delight of Prime Minister Felipe González, who likes to say that "Spain is calm, calmer than at any time since the death of General Franco." The political honeymoon still lasts, and when the boyish 41-year-old Socialist leader flies to Washington next week on his first...
However, we still have to perform the most difficult task: a basic overhaul of the economy based on industrial restructuring and reforms in the social security system. As for comparisons between the French and Spanish Socialist governments, there are quite a lot of differences. The change in France, with a solidly consolidated democracy, signified an alternation between left and right. In Spain, the most important thing was that it affirmed an alternation of power in democracy. Most important, in Spain it represents a generational change. The government has an average age that places it in the post-Civil War generation...
...Paris this year has carried more than a whiff of the May days of 15 years ago. University students, occasionally joined by professors in ermine-trimmed robes, have taken to the streets; at times the air has been filled with hurtling rocks and police tear gas. At issue: the Socialist government's proposals to reform higher education. President François Mitterrand included the overhaul of French universities in his campaign platform two years ago. Now his Education Minister, Alain Savary, has introduced a plan to open up higher education to more students and alter the system to make...
...National Assembly debate has dragged on, Socialist sponsors of the proposals have conceded several points: the status of the grandes écoles will not be altered; fewer outsiders will be put on university governing councils; third-year admissions exams will be applied only to specialized training. If the Socialist bill is approved by the National Assembly this month, as is expected, some of the reforms could take effect early in the next school year. Meanwhile, the university students have disappeared from the streets, and their absence illustrates an enduring French reality. A headline in Le Quotidien de Paris explains: EXAMS...