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MOBILIZATION. The alliance's response time must be shortened. Says a Washington weapons analyst: "It's not just a question of Al Haig pushing a button. The Danish parliament never gets a four-fifths majority on anything, but that is what is needed to move its Jutland divisions into proper positions in the south. In some cases the ammunition for units is five to six hours away...
...reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...
...down a suggestion by Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer for a round table of major parties to draw up economic policy. In the longer term, the Premier believes Euro-Communists should be encouraged to follow democratic procedures not so much within national governments but in the emerging, popularly elected European Parliament, which would be a less critical ground on which to demonstrate their conversion...
...easier or more difficult." As for the future, the entire political reality may change, he says. "Politics is also a creative art. Works of art are not programmed." The Communist question, moreover, has a "European dimension." If the Communists were to join the broad democratic left of the European Parliament after that new body's first popular election in 1978, Andreotti says, this could create a "berthing place" for their professed democratic pledges. Alongside Western European socialists and social democrats, the Communists would be smaller fish in a bigger pond where it would be safer to test their "untried...
Hume has consistently carried his quest for a non-violent solution to the Ulster conflict from the negotiating table to the city streets of Derry and Belfast. While a Stormont parliament member, Hume often risked his own life quieting Catholic protestors, keeping exchanges of insults from escalating into violence. Today, of course, all Protestant and Catholic marches are open invitations to violence and have been banned by the London government...