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Concern over an Italian-led Euro-Communist axis surged last week when Berlinguer interrupted his campaigning at home for a two-day visit to Paris which the Communist daily L 'Humanité heralded as "historique!" As Marchais's guest, the Italian leader once more proved that he is a campaigner to be reckoned with: his 47-minute speech in barely accented French to a rally of 70,000 Gallic comrades was a tour de force. Marchais for an hour had delivered a predictable tirade damning such enemies of the right as French President Giscard d'Estaing...
...Communist Party needs NATO more than anybody else," he said, adding that "without NATO, Euro-Communism would be no longer lived than it was in Czechoslovakia...
...Europeans and the Japanese, umbilically dependent on the Middle East for respectively 70% and 80% of their oil, not only pressed their most modern technology on the Arab states but also granted them strong diplomatic support. Some European political leaders called for a new Euro-Middle East alliance, perhaps to replace the Atlantic Alliance. The French, responding to what they call the "New Reality" of oil-based Arab power, were especially obsequious in their attentions. The Dutch, long outspoken defenders of Israel, fell silent in fear of Arab wrath...
...July 30) on Harvard's perennial problems arising from its share holdings in Gulf Oil, Nicholas Lemann detracts from an otherwise informative story by citing misleading statements regarding self-determination in Portuguese colonies that he attributed to Professor Francis M. Rogers. It may well be that Professor Rogers's Euro-centric vision of the African experience, which has occasionally compelled him to describe Portuguese colonies as "provinces" in defiance of historically established practice as well as current United Nations parlance, has this time led him to overlook African initiative in the wars of liberation now in progress. I get this...
...this year: a redefinition and reaffirmation of the principles binding together the Atlantic community. Part of the delay has been caused by Western Europe's own increasing disunity. Despite the unprecedented ease with which Western European nations send goods across each other's borders, the Euro pean Economic Community seethes with some of the deepest discontent in its 15-year history...