Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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France. The SDECE has some bright leaders and operates well in certain areas, notably former French West Africa. Suffers from internal squabbling and is thought to be penetrated by Communist agents...
...great rival Communist powers-the Soviet Union and China-each possess imposing oil reserves that are bound to become important factors in the world's struggle to avert a full-fledged energy crisis. Yet because both nations are so secretive, outsiders have had trouble analyzing their true capabilities or intentions. Some Western experts fear that the looming international competition for available supplies could lead to political and perhaps even military confrontations...
...electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there is a real chance that France's next Premier will be Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. But since there is no Fifth Republic precedent for a leftist Premier and Cabinet working under a center-right President, there are grave worries that collisions over their deep policy differences...
Editorials hailed him as "a luminous figure, a celebrated Communist leader, a passionate patriot, wise chief of party and state." Broadcasters saluted his "creativity of exceptional value in philosophy, scientific socialism, political economy, history, education, science and culture." In other encomiums, he appeared variously as still "the first peasant among peasants" and a fellow who was "born a peasant, became a worker and is now an intellectual...
...film is essentially a flat variation on Swept Away-with all of that hit's flaws intact but none of its wit, passion or eroticism. Giancarlo Giannini, looking understandably enervated, is back again as a macho Italian Communist; this time his sexual-political antagonist is the terminally weepy Candice Bergen, who plays his radical-chic American wife. A good part of the action unfolds in their fashionable Rome apartment on a very long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about...