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There were other troubles for the Kremlin to think about. In an extraordinary departure from tradition, the French Communist Party, long marked by its slavish loyalty to Moscow, moved sharply toward the more independent stance of its Italian comrades. In a joint communique issued by French Party Chief Georges Marchais and the Italians' Enrico Berlinguer, the two parties formally endorsed democratic change for their countries free of "all foreign interference" - a clear slap at Moscow...
...remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...
When the military overthrew the right-wing regime of Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal...
What is the reason for this slavish adulation of animals...
...contortions, physical maneuvers, and furniture kicking. During the extensive arguments and love bouts of Elyot and Amanda, the play's spirited and engaging cynics, the precise sense of timing turns insults, cigarette lighting, and record smashing into high comic art. At times, Arnott's exhaustive direction and his actors' slavish execution reaches self-parody: it is worthwhile, during the course of the play, to study carefully the director's Bolshoi ballet of sitting, resettling, and rising from different geometric surfaces...