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...also reasserted the Italian party's independence from Moscow, noting that "our internationalism," as he called the party's ongoing solidarity with the international Communist movement, "has never prevented us from practicing full independence, and it has never prevented us from criticizing events and attitudes in the socialist countries"-a pointed reminder of the Italian party's disapproval of many Soviet positions...
...congressional testimony, Publisher Seigenthaler questioned her and learned that the FBI recently had asked her about the political views of two Tennessean staff members: Columnist Dolph Honicker, an outspoken critic of nuclear power; and Jerry Hornsby, a copy editor who was until recently a member of the Socialist Party, U.S.A. Srouji insisted that she had defended the pair, but Seigenthaler dismissed her on the spot. "The moment it appears that the FBI is using any member of this staff as a conduit to check on any other member, then I have to cut off that conduit," he said...
Since assuming the ambassadorship to the United Nations, Moynihan has discarded the sophisticated--and more moderate--husk of his polemic, leaving the simplistic fruit intact. In an article in the March, 1975 Commentary Moynihan classed the underdeveloped nations as a true third force in world politics: They were democratic socialist, in line with a West European colonial experience. He described these nations as by and large anti-American and redistributionist (rather than production-oriented, since he says socialism cannot be productive. Here Moynihan forgets the Soviet Union, which is unusual if only because it seems to dominate all his other...
Respected Technocrat. Like Franjieh, who had supported his election, Sarkis is from the Maronite Christian community, which has dominated Lebanon's government and economy since the country became independent at the end of World War II. A respected technocrat who has been described as a "rightist with socialist ideas," he is credited, as head of the Central Bank, with restoring confidence in the country's banking system after the Intra Bank crash of 1966. A candidate in the last presidential election in 1970, Sarkis lost to Franjieh by only one vote...
...German translation of the Bible was the greatest single influence on his work. He was antiheroic; yet in Mother Courage he created one of the most arresting heroines in 20th century drama. As a Communist, he proselytized for the poor, but he was as tightfisted as the socialist Bernard Shaw when it came to his own money. And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies...