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...Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev tells a Soviet party congress that "the pillars of the socialist state" are in jeopjrdy in Polanb...
...geopolitical consequences of immediate majority rule through revolution seem equally unpalatable. South Africa would almost certainly become a socialist state aligned with Soviet bloc nations; the Soviet Union, directly or indirectly, supports most liberation movements suppressed by the Afrikaners, Socialist states have arisen in post-independent Mozambique and Angola; Namibia may follow suit. All of which pleases the Soviets immensely. They realize that the West would lose its control over the Cape sea-route--used by most oil tankers travelling from the Middle East to Europe and America--and the valuable mineral resources of the sub-continent if South Africa...
Papandreou himself has hardly waxed enthusiastic about Greece's E.C. membership, which was engineered by President Constantine Caramanlis 9½ months before the Socialist sweep last October. Long before the election, Papandreou had expressed strong hostility toward the E.C., and has often called for a referendum on Greece's membership in the Community. At the same time, Papandreou has expressed opposition to some E.C. export quotas, demanding that Greece be accorded special status within the Community. When he objected to one E.C. regulation on agriculture at the London summit, Belgian Prime Minister Mark Eyskens interrupted him, asking, "Then...
...other issues, Papandreou's personality seems split between the bluff and bluster of the consummate politician and the ideological pronouncements of a dedicated Socialist. Papandreou's ambivalence was particularly apparent in his first major policy speech last week when he waffled on the two key foreign policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO...
...Marxist composer in striped pants and gold cuff links who talks about revolution while sipping Calvados and puffing unfiltered Gitanes in an elegant hotel restaurant. "Because you're a socialist, people expect you to dress in flour bags and eat garbage," says Germany's Hans Werner Henze, at 55 the leading composer of his generation. "But I say better a Communist in a Rolls-Royce than a Fascist in a tank...