To the enthusiastic applause of Western governments and commercial banks, Grigory Yavlinsky, the chairman-designate of the new Inter-Republican Economic Committee, is prevailing in his effort to reconstruct and strengthen centralized controls over fiscal, monetary, banking and other policies.

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It emerged in the inter-war years as a split from republican liberalism, and while it became a traditional social democratic party after the fall of the Colonels regime in 1974, its forms of organisation, and mass base among civil servants and small business people, lead some to compare it to Argentine "Peronism" - that is left nationalism with a working class base.

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Normally pretty much anybody the Republicans put up would be presumptive favorite, " Moncrief said, "but in the last couple of years in the inter-mountain West, we've seen Democrats making some inroads, and I suspect the Republican Party is getting nervous about that even in Idaho.

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