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Marxism-Leninism, frequently known as Communism, is the governing force in the Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first...
Surveying the costs of the welfare state, a businessman confesses: "I'm a little bit scared of the future." Still, Norway's variant of socialism stands a good chance of thriving-if only because of potential benefits of North Sea oil. Like the petro-socialists in Libya, Iraq and Algeria, Norway's Labor Party can count on bankrolling its welfare measures with its oil earnings. This is a route to democratic socialism which few other societies have the luxury of imitating...
...rates-up 77% from 1967 to 1976- and voters appealing for help. With two different plans already under consideration by Congress, each offering aid in the form of direct tax credits, which Carter opposes, the President heeded Califano's counsel and jumped in last week with his own variant: a $1.5 billion Middle Income College Assistance...
Newest flu variant on the rampage in 41 states...
...develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only a threat to the rest of the world. The flu now sweeping 41 states is mostly another new variant called A/Texas...