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Communist leaders are as aware as Zaccagnini of this voter concern, and they appear to be making allowances for it even before the campaign formally opens. The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy. The hammer and sickle symbol, however, was muted, as so far have been the campaign statements of party bosses. In a speech last week, Giorgio Napolitano, a top PCI leader, made a surprising and significant distinction between Communist goals this time round. "We say that Communist participation in national decisions...
...throw the polls out of whack: 1) some 2.5 million Italians from the ages of 18 to 21, enfranchised only in March, will be voting for the first time, and a large number are expected to mark their ballots beside the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Partito Comunista Italiano; 2) the polls were taken prior to the elections in Portugal and Communist efforts there to override the results of the balloting...
...campaign, in which Bosch's chief opponent is Balaguer, is basically one of personalities, but there is a major emotional issue: the charges of Communism against Bosch. Last week sidewalks and walls in Santo Domingo were slathered with orange signs reading "Juan Bosch es comunista." Bosch tried to blunt such charges by taking to the radio in a series of half-hour broadcasts, declaring that "Communism is always totalitarianism...
...after Stalin's death, when "somebody named Khrushchev" beckoned Togliatti and other Red leaders to a secret meeting of the Cominform in Prague, Togliatti refused to go, sent a deputy instead. How much further this disdain went was described last week in the magazine Azione Comunista, by Giulio Seniga, once a key man in Togliatti's Communist Party. Togliatti did not even meet Khrushchev until the famous 20th Party Congress in Moscow, wrote Seniga. On his return to Italy, Togliatti said of Khrushchev's famed outburst against Stalin: "He was like an elephant walking on eggs...