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...received by them, in Rome or in Paris, and now it is I who can receive them in Madrid." With those words and a couple of warm abrazos, Carrillo welcomed Party Chieftains Enrico Berlinguer of Italy and Georges Marchais of France for a day and a half of Euro-Communist summitry in Madrid...
Beyond a reiteration of their commitment to "a democratic way," the godfathers of Euro-Communism disagreed sharply on just how deeply they should cut the Kremlin's apron strings. They reached no agreement at all on the sensitive issue of dissidence in the Soviet bloc, other than a mild approval of the Helsinki accord...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...
...East European economies are strained, Soviet influence in the Middle East continues to decline, and the "victory" of pro-Russian forces in Angola is proving a mixed blessing, because it has led to a new American concern about Soviet expansionism. Besides, a specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Euro-Communism, which proclaims itself independent of Moscow and professes all kinds of liberal and even democratic heresies...
...Still, Euro-Communism's top three parties are scheduled to convene in Madrid in the coming weeks, and the Spanish Communists are prepared to press for "an elaborate and strong declaration on the problem of dissent in Eastern Europe...