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With the election of the Labor Party's Bob Hawke [March 14], Australia will experience a new style of government, a kind of socialist experiment. Hawke claims that his highest priority will be to unite all Australians in winning the battle against the country's economic problems. The rhetoric is loud, but the plans are shaky. Hawke's leadership may result in bankrupting Australia and fostering more disunity than ever...
...doesn't know won't hurt anyone. Instead of relying on income taxes, French authorities in the '50s introduced the value-added tax, which collects anywhere from 5% to 33% on most commercial transactions. Like any sales tax, it implicitly discriminates against the poor, but the Socialist regime under President François Mitterrand is trying to balance that with special new taxes-on jewelry, yachts and country châteaus-that apply almost exclusively to the rich...
...agencies for overplaying social issues. Good News promoted Jessup's charges in its publications. A few months later, Jessup and Robb set up the I.R.D. in Washington, D.C., to monitor political activity by various denominations. They enlisted a credibility-building board of advisers whose 28 members range from socialist to right-wing on domestic issues but are pro-U.S. on foreign policy...
...Socialist leader H. Michael Harrington spokes yesterday on possible progressive alternatives to President Reagan's economic policies in the '80s, and called for the Left to "coalesce" in fighting unemployment, corporate power and nuclear arms...
...another channel, Leon Trotsky visits New York City in 1917 to rouse the American proletariat. Burgess tells this story in the form of a libretto for a Broadway musical, complete with lyrics. Trotsky falls for Olga, a hardheaded party worker, while his wife cavorts with a wealthy socialist. Four hearts beat as one until the revolutionary's son is reported missing. Trotsky's life is changed forever when he is reunited with the boy, and the songs turn as sentimental as the story. At the finale, the hero chants, "Family's first,/ Love is completeness,/ Power...