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Both state representative races in which Harvard students may vote are uncontested, with incumbents Saundra Graham and Mr., Charles Flaherty assured re-election. Democratic State Senator Michael J. LePresti faces William Shakalis, a Socialist...
Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
...arguing that such steps are needed to strengthen the country's finances, but whether Mexico will prove amenable to adopting those measures remains in doubt. Adding to the uncertainties, the López Portillo government two weeks ago appointed a socialist-oriented economist, Carlos Tello Macias, as head of the Mexican central bank, replacing the director, who had unexpectedly resigned as the financial crisis deepened...
...priority for the remainder of the century was economic modernization. Brimming with confidence, he called for the quadrupling of China's gross national product to $1.4 trillion by the year 2000. (The U.S.'s current G.N.P.: $2.9 trillion.) Although China's economic system will remain socialist, Hu urged greater reliance on foreign technology and market mechanisms. One capitalistic idea known as the "responsibility system" already allows peasants to increase their pay by doing extra work, and allows farmers to keep or sell production in excess of assigned quotas. Citing broad popular support for the scheme, Hu called...
...Craxi miscalculated. Interrupting his vacation in the Dolomites, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 85, rushed to Rome and asked Spadolini to form a new government. A lifelong Socialist, Pertini then reportedly reminded Craxi that in Italian politics the party that precipitates early elections usually suffers the most at the ballot box. Ultimately, Craxi appears to have been influenced by an equally persuasive fear: that the Communists would abstain in key parliamentary votes, allowing a minority government without the Socialists to stay in power...