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...contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...premature election that nobody particularly wanted, and when the votes were counted, nobody really won. In Italy's two-day national election last week, the dominant Christian Democrats (D.C.) recovered handsomely from disappointing regional election returns late last spring, but once again failed to gain the majority to form an effective government. The Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) picked up more votes and more parliamentary seats than ever, but not enough to overcome the Christian Democrats, as supporters had hoped. Italy's center parties, meanwhile, were caught between these political behemoths and were mauled...
...director of Harvard's Russian Research Center said yesterday that the document issued Wednesday at the end of a two-day conference of European Communist leaders in East Berlin did not necessarily indicate any change in Communism...
...year-old Caril Ann Fugate 17 years ago by her grandmother just after the sobbing teen-ager was sentenced by a Nebraska court to life imprisonment. The court had found her guilty of aiding Charles Starkweather in one of the most savage and sensational crimes of the 1950s: a two-day rampage of murder and violence that trailed blood across two states and left ten dead in its wake. True to her grandma's sage prophecy, Caril last week was given her freedom...
Concern over an Italian-led Euro-Communist axis surged last week when Berlinguer interrupted his campaigning at home for a two-day visit to Paris which the Communist daily L 'Humanité heralded as "historique!" As Marchais's guest, the Italian leader once more proved that he is a campaigner to be reckoned with: his 47-minute speech in barely accented French to a rally of 70,000 Gallic comrades was a tour de force. Marchais for an hour had delivered a predictable tirade damning such enemies of the right as French President Giscard d'Estaing...