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...what Romero sees as the current situation and the coming possibilities differs dramatically from his ideal. The author of one of the many splits of the Argentine Socialist Party, Romero would like to see an industrial system of capitalist dimensions, but controlled by the state and not by the industrialists--who to his mind are as bad as the old oligarchy...
Romero's analysis of Argentine politics is not an optimistic one. With the dispassionate eye of a man who knows he will not live to see his country governed in the way he thinks it should be, Romero forsees an Argentina which will continue under military control until the capitalist elites have the support of the organized unions. He forsees no chance of a fundamental social revolution, but rather the growth of a wealthy class of entrepreneurs who live off trading and not investment in their country's future...
...Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin went so far as to urge sympathy for "people who are struggling against the dictatorial regime of Mao Tse-tung." Everyone knew that the Russians felt that way, but it was the first time that a ranking Soviet official had said it-and in a capitalist capital, of all places. Russia and China canceled their longstanding agreement permitting citizens of each nation to visit the other without visas. China actually dared Moscow to break diplomatic relations. Urged Peking Radio: "Do it quickly! The Chinese people have made all preparations, and you will definitely come...
...whose haughty marquee flew the hammer and sickle. He dined at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Wilson, who welcomed him as "an old friend, a statesman I personally know to be cool and wise in his judgment, warm in his heart." He met with Britain's top capitalists at the Hyde Park Hotel, mingled with the likes of Mod Designer Mary Quant, Actress Mary Ure and the dip set at Lancaster House, and addressed scarlet robed sheriffs and aldermen, ecclesiastics and industrialists at the Guildhall. Ahead in Fashion. Kosygin dined on pheasant laid out on Sèvres...
...company's struggle with Communist trade unions embittered the immediate postwar years; with Giorgio Valerio, the head of Montecatini-Edison, the electric giant, whose hatred for the left is so virulent that he considered the center-left coalition in Italy little short of treason; and with such other capitalist barons as Olivetti's Aurelio Peccei, E.N.I.'s Marcello Boldrini and Finsider's Ernesto Manuelli. All of them already deal with the Russians-and all want to do more. "We do business wherever we can," says Valerio...