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...after he arrived in Athens in 1976, Ambassador Udaltsov was accused of funneling $25 million to the Greek Communist Party; unfazed, he called a press conference to declare: "I was not upset by those reports. The KGB is a highly respected organization set up by Lenin to protect the socialist revolution and the Soviet state...
...campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there is a real chance that France's next Premier will be Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. But since there is no Fifth Republic precedent for a leftist Premier and Cabinet working under a center-right President, there are grave worries that collisions...
...left, predictably, was angered by Giscard's fusillade. Only 24 hours earlier, Mitterrand had told a national television audience that Giscard would debase the presidency if he engaged in partisan politics. Exclaimed the Socialist leader: "You cannot at the same time be a referee on the field and captain of the team." To which Giscard replied: "The President... cannot remain indifferent to the fate of France. He is at the same time a referee and someone with responsibility. His electoral district is France...
...credibility of the Socialist Party, already tarnished in leftist circles by its pragmatic moves to the right, was further hurt by a scandal involving Edmundo Pedro, who resigned last week as a member of the party secretariat and head of the national television network. Pedro was arrested for illegal possession of 35 G3 automatic rifles, various pistols and ammunition. He claimed he got the weapons from the military, which handed them out during the aborted 1975 leftist uprising. Last week the army chiefs of staff confirmed that arms had been distributed to "democratic elements" when "totalitarian forces"-meaning the Communists...
...ready perfect reptile" that could be discerned, as one of the characters says, in the egg to which the title refers. And so once again the audience is treated to views of Germany in the early '20s-inflation rampant, democracy feeble, sex decadent, anti-Semitism emergent, National Socialist bullyboys beginning to feel their oats...