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Spain's Communist Party Chief Santiago Carrillo seems determined to establish himself as the St. Paul of Eurocommunism-a roving missionary for that brand of Western European Marxism that professes to be compatible with democracy and independent of Moscow. Earlier this year, Carrillo published a manifesto asserting that European Marxists should work toward reform through the ballot box rather than revolution. Now he is taking his gospel on the road...
...visit beginning this week, the balding, volatile Carrillo, 62, will attempt to explain Eurocommunism in several American forums, including Yale University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan. Doubtless to his irritation, he will not be the only Spanish leftist stumping in the U.S. Felipe González, 35, leader of the Socialist Workers Party, whose 28.5% of the vote in the June elections far surpassed the Communists' slim 9%, will be in Washington for talks with Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. No officials have invited Carrillo for a chat...
...Carrillo's U.S. visit climaxes a series of image-building junkets. In Moscow for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, he got a much publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...
...Carrillo then flew to Yugoslavia, hoping to discuss his U.S. trip with Marshal Tito. The aging marshal was too fatigued to see him and begged off, but Carrillo dined with Yugoslavia's No. 2 man, Edvard Kardelj, who was just back from a successful visit to Washington. Next it was off to Rome for talks with Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, leader of Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow...
...proletariat and the Soviet Union as the only true model of Marxism, and have sworn their willingness to co-exist with bourgeois freedoms in pluralistic societies. Skepticism about the depth of these commitments, which could readily be overturned by future leaders less moderate than Spain's Santiago Carrillo or Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, is warranted. Meanwhile, Moscow tries to cope with the reality of three heretical parties that, alas, simply cannot be excommunicated from the fold...