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What if Communists were to participate in an Italian government? In that case, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer has asserted: "Who could prevent us from following our own path? The frontiers are what they are." This statement implies that NATO might defend "Communism with a human face" in Italy from the Red army. If the Italian comrades believe that a "democratic Communism" can only exist behind the shield of the free world, I suggest that they take the decisive step: break their link with Moscow...
Essentially, the only result of Italy's most critical election in 30 years was that Communists had been kept from power. The Italian party-largest in the West and independently moderate under its popular leader Enrico Berlinguer (TIME cover, June 14)-so worried Western leaders that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had repeatedly warned Italians against voting Communists into government. Last week Kissinger called the results a standoff and predicted another election within a year. The Vatican, Berlinguer's other relentless foe, was just as concerned. Pope Paul VI last week undertook the revitalization of Catholic lay organizations...
Ulam characterized Italian Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer's criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czecholovakia, made during the conference, as "a slap on the wrist." He expressed uncertainty as to whether a similar Soviet action was now less likely as a result of the conference and document...
...disorder." Added the statement: "In the face of this worrying reality, the action of the government appears inadequate and weak." Political observers thought the mysterious mounting strategy of tension might hurt either party, but nobody knew to what degree. The latest election polls showed the Communists, led by Enrico Berlinguer, gaming slightly on Moro's Christian Democrats, but the polling took place before Coco was gunned down on his way to lunch...
...Party are in a building on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There, in a book-lined office dominated by a portrait of the late Palmiro Togliatti, TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante recently met with Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...