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...Santiago Carrillo, secretary general of the Spanish Communist party, will speak tonight at 8 p.m. at Science Center...
...Carrillo arrived here last night. He will spend the day at Harvard visiting classes and attending functions planned by the Center for European Studies, which invited him to speak here earlier this fall, Peter M. Lange, associate professor of Government, said yesterday...
...playing just that Marxist maverick role, however, Carrillo has won much attention. Cambio 16, a respected Madrid weekly, has described him as "one of the most Machiavellian, intelligent and chameleon-like politicians on the world scene." That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...
...Carrillo's colleagues abroad are evolving their own definitions of Eurocommunism. Italy's Berlinguer, whose party is inching toward its goal of a direct role in government, won acclaim at home for his performance at the Moscow anniversary party. He skillfully managed to praise Soviet Communism while reasserting his own independence and calling democracy a "historical and universal" value. Said he: "It is obvious that there cannot be any leading parties or subordinate parties." Ugo La Malfa, the influential leader of Italy's small centrist Republican Party, praised Berlinguer's speech as "a clear-cut turning...
...Carrillo has scoffed at warnings by Henry Kissinger, among others, that the European Communists' vaunted independence from Moscow is untested, to say the least. Carrillo maintains that "Eurocommunism is a reality." While in the U.S., he will have a chance to explain some of the contradictions in his doctrine: how, for instance, he can profess a commitment to democracy while also insisting on "the possibility of reaching power by revolutionary means." To satisfy his U.S. audiences, Carrillo may need the persuasive powers of a St. Paul...