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...optimism is overblown. The cordon of communist-run industrial towns around Paris has frayed over the past decade as the country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture...
...communist domination has not meant the end of the party. Despite a mass exodus of members, it thrives in several East European countries, though always with a new name. The Bulgarian Socialist Party -- the old Communist Party with a new label -- emerged victorious in May 1990 in the country's first free parliamentary elections in 50 years. That same month, Romanian Ion Iliescu, a communist official under the hated Ceausescu, won a two-year term as interim President with a startling 85% of the vote. His party, the National Salvation Front, had shed its identity as the Communist Party only...
...Moscow would retain responsibility for only a handful of functions, including border protection, communications, interrepublic transport, and carrying out a joint foreign policy that would be formed in consultation with the republics. About the only resemblance that this creation would bear to the present Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that the Cyrillic initials of its Russian name would be the same: C.C.C.P...
...name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has about it the deep sonority of history. Unfortunately, it is history -- or virtually so. Last week members of the Soviet parliament batted around suggested titles for the disintegrating union. Among the candidate monikers are the Union of Sovereign Soviet States (a Gorbachev favorite), the Euroasian Economic Community and the Commonwealth of Sovereign States of Europe and Asia. One cynic even suggested the Club of Crippled Nations...
...initial moves last week Gorbachev gave few signs he was willing to go that far. He declared himself "a socialist by ideology" and disclaimed any intention "to turn to a witch hunt...