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...highly allergic to surprises in its relations with Washington, it, too, slightly favors familiar Jerry Ford. Moscow has sniped at Carter, charging him with violating the "spirit of Helsinki" because he has urged the U.S. to use economic pressure against the Soviets. In reporting last week's debate, Pravda complained that Carter attacked Ford for "softness" in dealing with the U.S.S.R. while "pursuing the policy of detente." Ford's performance also came in for criticism; the party daily charged that he "did not contribute to a relaxation of tensions" by urging that the U.S. bargain with Moscow from...
...mixed economy. Striving to shed his party's doctrinaire image, French Communist Chief Georges Marchais went so far as to state on TV recently that the dictatorship of the proletariat is an outworn notion-a shocking bit of revisionism that brought a sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow fades, they believe, the chances will grow for a leftist-coalition victory at the polls...
...contrast, the Kremlin, which for years has portrayed Chou as Mao's anti-Soviet henchman, found no cause for mourning. Pravda noted Chou's death in a one-inch, six-line item near the bottom of page 5, beneath a routine story about the Common Market; the paper gave less space to Chou's death than it did to a Cabinet shuffle in Ecuador and a Burmese campaign against smuggling. The brevity of the announcements and the absence, at week's end, of official comment indicated that the Russians were proceeding with their customary caution. Like Washington, Moscow presumably expects...
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...Guns of Autumn" [Sept. 22] comes about as close to hunting as Pravda does to the ideals of journalism...