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...years, Italian Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer has flaunted his independence from Moscow by adopting heresy upon Marxist heresy. He has embraced democratic pluralism, supported NATO and even condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This week, with boldness bordering on recklessness, Berlinguer set off on a formal eight-day visit to China, the Soviet Union's main ideological adversary. Berlinguer's colleagues insisted that his trip was merely an attempt to resume normal relations with the Chinese party, which were cut off in 1962. Nonetheless, the visit was not only a slap at the Kremlin but also...
...doctors will lead lectures, discussions, and a lab during the October 29 workshop in Las Vegas, one of 180 scheduled during the eight-day convention...
...ironic that the United States, which guarantees freedom of religion, should question these things when Communist Poland did not raise any objections," Foley said, referring to the Pope's eight-day visit to Poland in June...
...other female leader, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, arrived in the same city for the Commonwealth Conference, she got a reception that might better have been accorded the queen of a leper colony. By week's end, however, her peers among the 41 Commonwealth leaders at the eight-day conference readily acknowledged that Mrs. Thatcher had made an important contribution toward solving an explosive issue that threatened to wreck the conference-namely, the problem of how to bring genuine majority rule to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. After arriving in Lusaka "with two horns and a tail," as she put it, Britain...
...just a couple of Jewish diplomats," said Robert Strauss to Henry Kissinger when they met on the veranda of Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week. Strauss was in town on the first official stop of an eight-day tour of the Middle East as President Carter's super-ambassador to the Palestinian-autonomy talks. The former Secretary of State apparently was in Jerusalem on private business-even though his journey was embellished with nearly all the trappings of a state occasion (see box). In fact, Kissinger was quite apologetic about the coincidence of the trips. Said...