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...collapse of the Communists raised questions about the continued presence in the Cabinet of the four Communist ministers as well as the future of Party Leader Georges Marchais, who has not spoken publicly about the voting results. Marchais's pro-Soviet line has been under fire by some French comrades since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Moscow's crackdown on Poland. The party was further handicapped by its ambivalent role as both a junior partner in the Mitterrand Cabinet and a critic of the government's unpopular economic austerity measures. Said a government official last week...
...military action that had begun in October and effectively ended after eight weeks. In the Soviet news film, the marchers carried a banner demanding U.S. IMPERIALISTS, HANDS OFF GRENADA ISLAND! The banner was in English, which probably reduced its readership in Kabul but certainly suggested something else: the broadcast was intended not so much to persuade Soviet audiences of U.S. perfidy as to distract Western attention from the historic day when nearly 100,000 Soviet troops rolled into Afghanistan to prop up a faltering pro-Soviet regime...
King, finally, has refused to shut up about his love affair with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The then-state representative had been linked with the pro-Soviet leader ever since King missed a crucial tie vote in the House because he was vacationing in Cuba as a guest of Castro. A week before the preliminary, he said on a radio talk show that he "preferred" Castro to President Reagan because Castro had done more to help the poor. He has, himself, brought up the Castro several times since then...
Such a willingness to use military force in the superpower struggle represents a challenge by Reagan to the "Brezhnev doctrine," the late Soviet President's determination, aimed at Poland and other nations, that Moscow has the right to use military force to prevent pro-Soviet governments from drifting or being pulled out of its sphere. The "Reagan doctrine," as indicated by the rationales for the Grenada invasion, is that the U.S. can and may use force to challenge regimes that threaten American security...
...always so. In the mid-1970s the P.C.F. went through a Eurocommunist phase of relative independence from Moscow and established strong links with the Socialist Party. But in 1977 the hardline, pro-Soviet doctrines of the past reasserted themselves and the alliance with the Socialists was scuttled. The new coalition, forged in the 1981 elections, has sharpened party divisions between old-line Stalinists and moderates...