Word: trend
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...left. In the past five years, socialist governments have lost power in Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium and Norway, and this year alone, in West Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark. Rather, the election of the first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President François Mitterrand and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou swept to power last year on a wave of popular enthusiasm for promises of change, and Felipe Gonz...
Professor Gianfranco Pasquino, of the University of Bologna, suggests an explanation for the trend: "To a very large extent the socialist parties in Southern Europe are new parties. The French from 1971, the Greeks from 1974 and the Spanish from 1976-77. As such, they are identified more with cultural freedom and social justice, with popular demands for improvements in education, in the environment." Pasquino believes too that the socialists in all three countries are perceived as more reliable defenders of jobs. "It is not so much that they have been able to claim they will create more jobs," says...
...coalitions that lack a broad-based electoral mandate. It is as if the voters wanted to experiment with a new approach to economic problems but withheld the authority for any drastic solutions. In Sweden, the victory in September of Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme ran counter to the trend in the rest of Northern Europe...
Despite the meager results, the Reagan Administration is convinced that it has adopted the proper course. Says a senior State Department official: "We see it as a long-term proposition. There are dips and bobs and weaves, good days and bad days. But the trend of the process is generally forward and upward, in a slow, erratic way." Just how slow and erratic may be decided in January, when the Administration must again certify to Congress that progress is being made on human rights and social reform in El Salvador...
...field day in the U.S. and American exporters stymied abroad, the merchandise trade gap has widened. Last week the Commerce Department announced that the September deficit amounted to just over $4 billion. While this is an improvement over August's record shortfall of $7.1 billion, the overall trend has led to expectations of a merchandise trade deficit of $43 billion this year, the worst ever, and an even larger...