Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then suddenly, "LILY," the American computer imported to speed the vote counting, begins to behave strangely. The Communist vote goes up while the government vote stands still. Everyone laughs and has another glass of champagne. But LILY keeps moving the Communists up. A commentator who sounds like H. V. Kaltenborn in 1948 says, "Wait until the vote from Calabria and Sicily starts coming...
...cold dawn, it all becomes clear. The Communists have refused to allow themselves to be duped into governing, knowing full well, as do all Italians, that Italy is essentially ungovernable. Longo and his friends leave the Premier's office. The Communist leader is saying wistfully to his deputy: "It would have been nice, though, and you could have been Prime Minister. Too bad. Moscow said the balance of power in Europe should not be destroyed...
...socialism do not mix. His critics also charge that he is seizing ,on secessionist tendencies chiefly because an independent East Pakistan would be so weak that it would be susceptible to influence from China and the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal, which is now ruled by a Communist government. Bhashani, while not a Communist, is a radical leftist with close personal and political ties to Peking...
...cherished aim of Rumania's in dependent Communist boss Nicolae Ceauşescu is to see his country out grow its role as the melon-and- cucumber patch of Eastern Europe. Nothing will change, he realizes, if the Russians have their way. So Ceauşescu stubbornly resists the integration of Rumania's economy with the Soviet bloc's Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon). Instead, he relies largely on Western technology to turn his country toward industrialization...
Bucharest these days is aswarm with West German, British, French and Jap anese visitors peddling such industrial tools as airplanes, chemical equipment and textile machinery. Already half of Rumania's trade is with non-Communist countries, compared with only 20% a decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...