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...smaller, more influential group supports statehood because it would "close off the dangers of drastic social change" such as communism, he added...
...advocates tighter national control of key industries, more pro-worker labor regulations and a revamping of the tax structure. And Georges Marchais, the sometimes abrasive head of the Communist Party, has shed a reputation for strict adherence to Soviet directives and identified himself with the type of Euro-Communism espoused by leaders like Italy's Enrico Berlinguer. How long the two men can continue to play down ideological differences and hold their political alliance together, however, remains unclear. No one can predict how their cooperation will hold up through the 1978 elections and in the face of Chirac's frontal...
...critics, primarily the Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People, have indulged in a form of academic vigilantism characterized by misrepresentation, systematic distortion and personal attack. Wilson's views, if correct and rigorously applied, are the antithesis of socialism, Communism and the welfare state; they indicate clearly, if correct, that our human faults and injustices are the product of biological evolution and that a mere change of environment is not going to correct anything. We must recognize our genetic heritage and work to overcome the weaknesses of this biological inheritance...
...matters a great deal. And concerns me very much, depending on the degree of Communist participation in the government, and the loss of the respect and confidence of the citizens of those nations in the democratic processes that we prefer over Communism. Another factor is the degree of allegiance that might be shown by Communist leaders toward the Soviet Union and away from our own nation and from NATO. I think the best way to minimize the Communist influence in Italy and France is to make the democratic processes work, and to restore the confidence of the citizens...
...home is lost in the late 1920s. But while his sister, 17, goes to work in a jeweler's shop, Stefan, 15, manages the ultimate Dostoyevskian luxury: "Playing the role of the sort of person he ought to be." He dabbles in religious speculation (largely gloomy), flirts with Communism (almost, but not quite, of course, making it to the Spanish Civil War), and languidly backs into a comfortable marriage. A spectator of life, naturally he becomes a writer and, for a while, a fashionable one−a protege of a princess...