Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...troubling ways, guided by their own historic and cultural traditions. Rumania, although it has one of the East bloc's most repressive regimes, has maintained a boldly independent foreign policy. Hungary, while hewing to the Soviet line on international affairs, is experimenting with quasi-capitalist practices in its socialist economy...
Africa will rise and shine again." He says he has abandoned his strictly socialist former doctrines. He has promised "moderate policies for the rehabilitation of the economy," including incentives for foreign investment. But no such moves will help if he cannot rebuild a spirit of cooperation among the demoralized Ugandans...
...came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland," he said, "people in many places in Czechoslovakia had begun to discuss the status of the unions and their tasks in a socialist society...
...days later TASS carried portions of a truculent speech by Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Addressing a high-level military group whose proceedings would ordinarily be secret, Ustinov called for "heightened vigilance against the aggressive aspirations of imperialist forces, against the attempts of reaction to damage the positions of socialist countries, specifically of socialist Poland." The implication that pressures on Poland were external rather than internal was similar to charges made against "Western imperialists" and "West German revanchists" before the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...Semitic Blackshirts fomented hatred in London during the 1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France. His son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, said of him: "I see clearly that while the right hand dealt with grandiose...