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...West spy swaps in years: the exchange of a convicted Soviet agent who had been held in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania for an American student who had been imprisoned by the East Germans. As part of the same deal, a young Israeli had already been freed by the Marxist regime in Mozambique...
...with a population somewhere between 5 million and 9 million (estimates vary wildly). Its oil reserves, far and away the world's largest, are virtually unprotected from potential enemies. To the north are the leftist Iraqis, equipped by the Soviet Union; to the south is Marxist South Yemen; to the east is powerful Iran...
Written in a businesslike style, free of the usual Marxist rhetoric, the manual contains instructions grouped under seven headings: renting or buying a "safe" house, use of automobiles, work methods, appointments, contact with relatives, personal care and what to do in case of arrest. Ringing a kind of middle-class change on Mao's dictum that guerrillas should mix with the people as fish swim in water, the handbook conveys a portrait of an organization that is both rigorously disciplined and shrewd...
...most telling J'accuse has been an analysis in Le Monde by Communist Historian Jean Elleinstein, deputy director of Paris' Center for Marxist Studies and the intellectual leader of the French party's "liberal" wing. He charged that the party's rule-from-the-top doctrine of "democratic centralism" is too central and insufficiently democratic. The party, he added, should loosen its ties to Moscow. "Socialism exists only in a very imperfect form in the Soviet Union," Elleinstein wrote, "and it is thus not a model but an antimodel...
...scant ten months after it won a disappointing 9% of the popular vote in general elections. The focal point of the five-day meeting, called "a Communist debate for democracy and socialism," was Carrillo's proposal to drop the party's "Leninist" label in favor of "Marxist, democratic and revolutionary." Even prior to the congress, the proposal, which is known as Thesis XV, had upset several provincial and regional party conferences. The furor was not only over the concept itself, one striking even by Eurocommunist standards, but also over sometimes heavy-handed manipulation by the leadership...