Word: tentacular
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When will the Soviet Union become a multiparty democracy? Given the current Communist monopoly on power and a tentacular organizational structure reaching across the country, probably not any time soon. Yakovlev cautioned last week against drawing too many comparisons between events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, pointing out that most of those countries enjoyed a tradition of multiparty politics. One interim stage might be the formation of national fronts, uniting Communist factions. Groups advocating "fascism, terrorism, militarism and nationalist extremism" will not meet the criterion for registration, but it is unclear just who will decide who qualifies...