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...Harvard honchos of the oh-so-"Democratic" Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) have once again resorted to calling on their campus police buddies to throw members of the Spartacus Youth League out of a "public" dinner meeting...
...most advanced nuclear-energy program is in France, where 22 reactors now produce more than 30% of the country's electric power, the highest percentage in the world. During last spring's presidential campaign, Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand dismissed nuclear power as "costly and uncertain" and promised to delay nine proposed plants. But as President, Mitterrand has curbed his antinuclear rhetoric and now plans to halt only three of the plants. Reason: his government is counting on the energy provided by nuclear reactors to help fuel an ambitious program of economic revival...
...election of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand initially was seen as a threat to the trade. He fired Gérard Hibon, chief of the Direction des Affaires Internationales, which handles overseas arms deals. Sales to South Africa, Chile and Argentina were discouraged because of those nations' domestic policies, and an unofficial ban was placed on future sales to Libya after its invasion of Chad, a former French colony. "Right now we're in a period of reflection," says a top govern ment minister. But Mitterrand by no means wants France out of the business: on a visit to Saudi Arabia last...
Fiery Andreas Papandreou, 62, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), has a solid chance to win a majority in the 300-seat Parliament now dominated by Prime Minister George Rallis' New Democracy Party. If he does, allagi will be felt not only in Greece but in Western Europe...
...heritage was cast away for a mess of ideological pottage, cooked up in the Bauhaus by various Germans and mittel Europeans under the sway of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This wholly alien style-monastic, severe, technology obsessed and full of socialist implications, smelling of Utopia and garlic-was brought to America, a country that (as Wolfe argues in one of his more dizzying transports of sociological fancy) had no need for worker housing and was therefore ill-fitted...