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...director of Harvard's Russian Research Center said yesterday that the document issued Wednesday at the end of a two-day conference of European Communist leaders in East Berlin did not necessarily indicate any change in Communism...
...Democratic and Communist parties is the development most likely to provide a broad popular base for a viable government; such a coalition is the only force capable of regenerating Italy's stagnant economy. Americans cannot continue to view such a development as dangerous: it would legitimize diversity within European Communism, and so increase the ability of Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. America must resolutely refrain from interfering in Italy's government...
Momentarily, at least, as a result of the murders, violence suddenly overshadowed Communism as a central issue in the election campaign. Politicians warned of a renewed "strategy of tension" among extremist groups to foment disorder and influence voters: in addition to last week's triple killing, the violence has already included the murder of a Communist demonstrator following a neo-Fascist rally, street battles between extreme right and left, and the fire-bombing of a Rome movie theater used for neo-Fascist rallies...
...most Americans, Communism conjures up images of the rigid, bureaucratized economic systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Its main characteristics are state ownership of all enterprises, collectivized agriculture, strict government planning. Is this the vision offered by the Communist parties of Western Europe? To varying degrees, the answer is no. Western Europe's Communists say they want to create a sort of Eurocommunism that draws its inspiration from neither the Soviet Union nor China nor Yugoslavia. "None of the models existing in the world today apply to us," says José Maria González, economic spokesman...
...Democrats and Communist parties is the development most likely to provide a broad popular base for a viable government; such a coalition is the only force capable of regenerating Italy's stagnant economy. Americans cannot continue to view such a development as dangerous: it would legitimize diversity within European communism, and so increase the ability of Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. America must resolutely refrain from interfering in Italy's government...