Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comrades praising the Soviet Union as the true leader of the socialist world. Not any more, apparently. What was to have been a final preparatory meeting for an all-Europe Communist summit conference early next year ended in deadlock in East Berlin late last month. Instead of approving a document demonstrating Communist unity, the abortive meeting highlighted the unseemly disarray of Communism in Europe these days...
...summit was originally conceived as a follow-up to last summer's East-West European Security Conference in Helsinki and a kind of grand finale to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's decade of leadership. The Russians wanted a document they could present to their 25th Soviet Party Congress, scheduled for February, that would stress the disruptiveness of China's role in the Communist world and laud that of Moscow. Now there seems little chance that the Communist summit can be held before the Soviet Party Congress...
...differences in East Berlin arose when the Russians and East European hard-liners presented a draft document stressing traditional ideology. The renegades instead wanted to emphasize the open spirit of Helsinki and insisted the conference follow three basic principles: 1) the conference should not adopt any policies without a general consensus of all parties, 2) nonconformists like the Italians should not become a target of criticism by others, and 3) individual parties should have the right to speak out even on unpopular topics like the Italian party's insistence on seeking power through democratic elections...
...SOME OF his sharpest analysis, Unger shows that the internal contradictions within liberalism lead to a breakdown of law and justice. If the Supreme Court is torn over conflicting interpretations of the Constitution, it is not because the document is poorly constructed, but because general theorems cannot be applied perfectly to specific cases...
...report is an extraordinary document to have issued from a branch of the Government of a superpower, and it is a fund of sometimes chilling, sometimes ludicrous lore. It reveals that on Nov. 22, 1963, the day John Kennedy was killed in Dallas, a high-ranking CIA officer named Desmond Fitzgerald was meeting in Paris with a Cuban secret agent known as AM/LASH to offer him a poison pen outfitted with a hypodermic needle. As a long-secret CIA report said, "It is likely that at the very moment President Kennedy was shot, a CIA officer was meeting with...