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Berlinguer's party promptly struck back. Bristling at the "insults and bad faith" of the Soviet attack, P.C.I. Foreign Affairs Specialist Giancarlo Pajetta observed tellingly that "there is no Communist Vatican, and nobody can excommunicate us." Observed the Italian party daily L'Unità: "It seems to us strange and worrisome that the [Soviet party] has learned nothing from the numerous grave facts and ruptures of the past, which have strongly damaged, and continue to weigh upon, not only the cause of socialism, of peace, of liberty, but also on the Soviet Union itself...
...search for causes of the electoral decline has resulted in recriminations aimed at the party's leadership. Citing "errors at the top," the party's peppery elder statesman, Giancarlo Pajetta, warned: "Someone with responsibility will have to pay." That someone might be Berlinguer. Although he has not been publicly attacked by his fellow Communists, Berlinguer's authority is being seriously questioned for the first time since he took over the party...
...local contests where Christian Democratic patronage is entrenched. Party officials admitted that, despite their forceful stand against bargaining with Moro's kidnapers, they had been tarred by the terrorists' use of the "Red label" and what they called the "illicit misrepresentation of the Communist name." Giancarlo Pajetta, a prominent Communist leader, fumed against Christian Democratic politicians in the provinces who had called the Red Brigades "the Communists' children" in campaign speeches...
...effect, Gomulka was suggesting second-class berths for weaker parties, and Western European Communists were furious. The leaders of French and Italian delegations both rose to announce that their parties intended to travel "our road toward socialism," as Italian Giancarlo Pajetta put it. Rumanian Delegate Chivu Stoica also declined to line up behind Gomulka's thesis. Russian Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev plumped for the Kremlin's long-sought Communist summit, which was postponed indefinitely after the invasion. But it was all too clear that European Communists are in no mood to convene in harmony...
Italy's Communists did not back down. Glaring at the Red Chinese trio, Giancarlo Pajetta, a leading member of Togliatti's Central Committee, declared: "When we want to say 'China,' we don't have to say 'Albania.' Our congress unanimously rejects your attack, which we find unacceptable, and condemns your views, which we find not to be just...