Word: gradualists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general election of 1976, which had provoked anxiety in every Western capital about the specter of Eurocommunism coming to power in the NATO alliance. The defeat also raised the prospect of an intraparty challenge to Berlinguer's leadership, since it appeared to be a repudiation of his gradualist "historic compromise" strategy of joining the government in a national alliance with the centrist parties. Said Flaminio Piccoli, president of the Christian Democrats: "The Communist Party has lost its referendum on entering the government...
...March who remained personally close to the Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether...
...showing by the Giscard-Chirac candidates in France's angry provinces was a clear warning to the centrist parties that they must revise their strategies to stem further leftist inroads. The government will have to devise more effective means of dealing with rising unemployment than Giscard's gradualist economic reforms...
...years of debate, decided against the so-called market approach-that is, a quick end to controls on domestic oil prices, which would allow them to run up to world levels, thereby reducing consumption and encouraging more oil exploration. Instead, Congress-and later the Ford Administration-adopted a "gradualist" approach. Embodied in the energy act passed last year, it essentially maintains oil price controls through 1978, allowing U.S. oil to rise from its controlled level of about $7.50 per bbl. (compared with the current world price of about $13) only in small annual jumps. Critics charge that this pace...
...government -an event that forced the early election-the Communists have had to accelerate their political timetable. In the long run, they still seek a "historic compromise" in which they would share power with the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. In the short run, though, they have become less gradualist. Last week, citing "impelling needs of the present," Berlinguer called for an emergency government of "national solidarity" which would involve all parties except the extreme right neofascists...