Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That said it all. The words were spoken by China's Party Chairman and Premier, Hua Kuo-feng, earlier this month during a four-hour address before the Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. But they were released last week only a few hours before the arrival in Peking of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. The central purpose of the Vance mission was to determine whether there was any chance for a compromise between the U.S. and China on the problem of Taiwan -the key issue blocking the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Washington...
...compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save Mao, Chiang Ch'ing and Chou En-lai from capture by Nationalist troops in their cave headquarters...
Paris, March 1978. A Socialist-Communist alliance wins control of France's National Assembly; crowds dance in the Place de la Concorde . . . President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing reluctantly names Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand as France's Premier ... Communists get four of the 19 Cabinet posts, becoming the first party members to gain power in Western Europe since the 1940s . . . Transition appears smooth at first, but then...
That is the situation in the opening pages of a new novel published in France last week. Titled The 180 Days of Mitterrand, the book probes what will happen if the Socialist and Communist parties gain power in next March's parliamentary elections - which is entirely possible. The work of a so far anonymous author, Days is an instant hit: its first printing of 50,000 copies sold out in a day. The novel says the book editor of the French newsmagazine L 'Express, is "a marvelous projection of the present that always remains on the edge...
...Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory of Kap-pler's victims...