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Some followers of Marx mixed praise for their mentor with scathing criticism of wayward comrades. In a special section of the Italian Communist daily L'Unita, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer sounded off against countries that "reduce the grand, living lessons of Marx to an ideological credo," a pointed reference to the Soviet Union. Viet Nam took China to task in a lengthy commentary on the "Great Teacher of Proletarian Revolution," published in the government daily Nhan Dan. Among other charges, the newspaper claimed that Peking's independent Communist line "negates the universal principles of Marxism-Leninism...
...criticism by a democratic society. Said the New York Times: "How rare the nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would be difficult to find any other nation at war that would let itself be subject to such an open and hard self-criticism...
...from Republican hard-liners like Senator Jesse Helms to make Cuban withdrawal a prior condition for the Namibian settlement. Helms also wants the U.S. to force Angola into sharing power with the guerrilla group backed by South Africa known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
Congress also caused the Administration problems last week. The House Foreign Affairs Committee bucked White House pressure and voted (19 to 5) to keep the ban on U.S. aid to the UNITA rebels righting the Cuban-backed government in Angola. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee the next day voted (10 to 2) the other way, but only after adding language requiring the President to consult with Congress before providing any aid. The matter may have to be settled in a House-Senate conference. Both congressional panels also recommended imposing restrictions on aid to El Salvador and Argentina that would...
...months, reports have circulated in Europe and the U.S. about Cuban "kidnapings": African youths, taken involuntarily from their peasant homes and flown to Fidel Castro's country for ideological indoctrination. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the anti-Marxist, rebel UNITA movement in Angola, has even used the word slavery to describe what is taking place. The stories, which are given some credence by Western observers in Africa, cast a shadow over one of the Cuban President's proudest achievements: the creation of 15 revolutionary schools on the Isle of Youth...