Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...THIS SAME Georges Marchais who, at the 1976 East Berlin Conference, sided with the Italian Communist Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer in advocating insubordination to Moscow. It was this same Georges Marchais who, in 1976 at the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, scratched the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" from the official party charter. And had not the PCF repeatedly denounced the Soviet Union for its disregard for human rights? Indeed, since the middle 60s, the party tempered its revolutionary character to achieve greater political integration. In collaborating with the Socialists, the PCF doubled its traditional 20-per-cent...
However, within the context of French politics, the PCF had few alternatives. Unlike both the Italian Communist Party and the Spanish Communist Party, the PCF must vie constantly with the French Socialists for the title of "the opposition party." A complete severance of its ties with Moscow could make the party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate...
...well. Pravda admitted on its front page that Kabul was beset by "unrest" and "insurgency." In the frankest admission of all, the official news agency TASS indicated that the Karmal government was in disfavor with a large part of the population. Another surprising admission was attributed by the Italian magazine Panorama to a Soviet general identified as Mikhail Kirian. He publicly conceded that "in the Afghan army, there have been deser tions," and that "the Afghans will have to work hard to put the army in order...
...Western Europe. To cite Alexander Pope's description of the court of Charles II, written 50 years after Charles's death, is barely acceptable; quoting Dante on poverty to describe what Charles went through in years of exile is not. She has at least the grace to translate the Italian, which she does not do for the French scattered through the text...
...called "the ethnic joke to end all ethnic jokes," Reagan found himself forced to apologize to anyone who might have taken offense. Reagan's joke: "How do you tell the Polish one at a cockfight?" "He's the one with the duck." "How do you tell the Italian?" "He bet on the duck." "How do you know the Mafia is there?" "The duck wins...