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...free elections to be held, by a provisional government in which the FSLN would be represented. The demands of the Sandinistas include sweeping reform of the agrarian structure, nationalization of the banking sector, concentration of social welfare programs and education in particular, the establishment of diplomatic relations with socialist countries, and the expropriation of Somoza's massive business empire...
Last month the Reims Socialists finally decided they had suffered enough. "We want unity of the left," said Georges Colin, leader of the local Socialist group. "But this implies being able to exercise all our responsibilities, and that has not been the case so far." To underscore their discontent, the Socialists voted against a supplementary budget requested by Lamblin. Last week, in retaliation, the Communists voted against a Socialist proposal to create a new department of urban affairs for the district...
...naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile his early socialist ideals with the "society of centralized reallocation" that he and his fellow bureaucrats have engineered. He wonders why the exercise of power has left him feeling so weak: "A planner can neither improve things nor make them much worse." His thoughts become increasingly aphoristic: "The bureaucrat is bound...
...Malfa, the influential leader of Italy's small centrist Republican Party, praised Berlinguer's speech as "a clear-cut turning point" that made the Communists more worthy to participate in running Italy. Meanwhile, in France, Georges Marchais's Communist Party has split with its Socialist allies just when a leftist victory in next spring's elections appeared to be possible. They seem to have severed the alliance because they are unwilling to share power-thus confirming doubts in some quarters about the sincerity of the Eurocommunists' eagerness to work within the democratic framework...
...most famous movie, "Never on Sunday" was her credo, but Melina Mercouri is now on the streets seven days a week-campaigning for election to the Greek parliament. In 1974 Actress-Activist Mercouri was defeated as a Socialist candidate from Piraeus, which includes the red-light district in her 1960 film. Back on the hustings again, she is confident of victory this time. Says Mercouri, 52: "They trust me not as a star, but rather as a woman with dynamism who knows how to fight, how to go on strike. I want to be a thorn in parliament...