Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italy's Communist Party has a new look these days: young. The average age of the Central Committeemen elected at the party's recent Bologna congress is only 43 - and only eight of the 171 members are veterans of the days when the party was formed...
...delegates to the congress, a fifth were less than 30 years old. In keeping with that youthful image is the man the congress elected deputy secretary-general and successor to aging Leader Luigi Longo. The heir apparent...
...Berlinguer who last November led an Italian delegation to Moscow to inquire about the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. For two days. Iron Bottom resisted pleas and pressures by Soviet leaders to give Italian approval of their action. In an eloquent two-hour speech at the Bologna congress, Berlinguer once again called for "the principle of the absolute respect for the independence and sovereignty of each and every Communist Party." He added: "What we need is a new way of coming to terms with the reality of the U.S.S.R. and the socialist countries...
...Harold Nicolson called the "wolflike habits" of the Italian Renaissance, when Niccolo Machiavelli lectured Medici princes on the judicious use of power and perfidy. In those days, diplomats were regarded as no better than spies. An envoy's status abroad, in fact, was hardly assured until the Congress of Vienna established a European balance of power in 1815. The relative stability that followed, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in his 1957 book, A World Restored, "resulted not from a quest for peace but from a generally accepted legitimacy ... an international agreement about the nature of workable arrangements and about...
DESPITE the Government's anti-inflation campaign-which many employers would like to take to heart by holding down salaries-everybody seems to be earning more and more these days. Congress recently doubled the U.S. President's salary to $200,000, while boosting the pay of its own members from $30,000 to $42,500. Barbra Streisand this month signed a contract with Las Vegas' new International Hotel that gives her an estimated $500,000 (plus stock in the hotel) for four weeks work a year. Harvard Business School graduates now begin their working lives...