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...Saudis, Arab solidarity is essential if the Soviets are to be prevented from exploiting Arab quarrels. Communism, the Saudis believe, is almost as much a threat to the Arab world as Zionism. They feel an overall peace settlement would "deradicalize" the Arabs, whose frustrations about Israel have fostered a brand of terrorism that has frightened the Riyadh rulers. The assassination of King Faisal in 1975 (although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring...
...Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow. Said he: "I don't regard myself as the enfant terrible of Communism-if only because...
Carrillo's colleagues abroad are evolving their own definitions of Eurocommunism. Italy's Berlinguer, whose party is inching toward its goal of a direct role in government, won acclaim at home for his performance at the Moscow anniversary party. He skillfully managed to praise Soviet Communism while reasserting his own independence and calling democracy a "historical and universal" value. Said he: "It is obvious that there cannot be any leading parties or subordinate parties." Ugo La Malfa, the influential leader of Italy's small centrist Republican Party, praised Berlinguer's speech as "a clear-cut turning...
...domestic intelligence division for a decade, Sullivan was involved in many abuses including "black bag" operating and illegal wiretapping of National Security Council phones that were later revealed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though long a loyal lieutenant of Hoover's in his obsessive war against Communism, Sullivan later criticized Hoover's extremist views and retired in 1971 after arriving at his office to find his nameplate gone and his lock changed...
...year of Sputnik, Fast declared his disenchantment with Soviet Communism in a book called The Naked God. It ensured his distinction as American letters' slowest study in Stalinism. Like the immigrants of his new novel, the author looked to California, where some of his earlier novels, including Spartacus, had been turned into film scenarios. He wrote science fiction and mysteries under the name E.V. Cunningham, eventually acquired a house in Beverly Hills, a Porsche and a yen for Zen Buddhism...