Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian Communist leaders in the past have made obeisances toward the church, but never to the extent that Berlinguer has His extraordinary statement was prompted by Bishop Luigi Bettazzi of Ivrea. After last year's national elections, in which the Communists increased their hold over the large city governments as well as 2,778 towns and villages, Bettazzi wrote an open letter to the secretary-general asking whether local Communist governments could be counted on to guarantee full respect for religion...
...Communist leader's broadside had two goals: 1) to launch a direct ideological dialogue with church authorities, and 2) to improve the party's image with middle-class Catholics who might provide further gains in future elections. With 227 seats in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies, the Communists are already formal partners in the six-party accord that supports Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government...
...needed "clarification on the doctrinal level and reassurance on the practical level." The editorial added that "Italian Catholics can hardly be blamed if their interest in the Berlinguer letter is joined and outweighed by perplexity." In a departure from tradition, the voice of the Vatican also referred to the Communist leader by name, acknowledged his power, and even hinted that accommodation on specific issues might be possible. The church door and the dialogue now appear to be open...
Such is the travelogue romanticism that has dominated much Western reporting from China since the Ping Pong diplomacy days of 1972, when large numbers of visitors were admitted for the first time since the Communist takeover in 1949. Now, however, some revisionism is in vogue. In the past year such ideologically diverse American publications as Commentary (more and more conservative) and the New York Review of Books (still insistently liberal) have run pieces critical of conditions in China. The occasional U.S. journalist allowed into the country is more discerning than before about what he sees, thanks to a growing body...
...years the I.L.O.'s Communist and Arab member nations have used the organization, and particularly its annual meeting, as a forum for attacks against U.S. policy toward the Middle East and elsewhere. That has dismayed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, both of which send delegates to I.L.O. meetings.-Says AFL-CIO Boss George Meany: "I have had to sit in plenary sessions with the I.L.O. where they compliment the Director General on his wonderful report. Then they would launch an attack on the United States of America...