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Thursday, November 10, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Eurocommunism triggers doubts
By THOMAS KENT Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP)—Soviets officials seem unsure whether to continue attacking independent-minded "Eurocommunists" or to support the efforts of those holding Communist unity.
"I think the Russians just don't know what to do," a Western diplomat in Moscow said. "They have all of the alternatives but no one seems sure which one they should follow."
EUROCOMMUNISM developed in the past two years as Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe.
European countries declared independence from Moscow. They questioned basic tenets of Communist theory, criticized the Russians for limiting human rights and pledged to seek power through democratic elections.
Soviet publications for Communists to stay loyal to each other.
The Kremlin's response has ranged from a bitter speech by its chief ideologist, Mikhail Shumyk, to the call for greater openness.
The latest public squabble over Eurocommunism surfaced at a gala public meeting here last Wednesday and Thursday in honor of the 600th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The Soviets invited President Mikhail Gorbachev to 25 foreign Communist parties to speak.
MOST SPEAKERS praised the Soviets, but Eurocommunists also seized the opportunity to restate their views to Soviet leaders. Italian Communicator leader Enrico
Beringer declared there "can be no leading" or "led" parties in the world communist movement. British Communist leader Gordon McLennan said that if socialism triumphed in Britain, political parties favoring a return to capitalism could succeed.
The biggest conflict involved Spanish Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, who told reporters he had been banned from speaking after turning in a copy of his speech, which he said was no stronger than Berlínquer's, for translation.
Despite objections by the United States and Britain that the General Assembly resolution exaggerated the threat posed by the three-year-old Cyprus crisis, the resolution was expected to pass by a substantial margin.
U. S. representative John Clifford Kennedy aired the American objections to the seven-point resolution submitted by six nominees to be elected president on day of a debate that has been marked by frequently bitter exchanges between Turkey and visiting Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Hassan Nasrallah.
U.S. seeks to avoid NATO split
That resolution, like the current one, urged resumption of inter-comunal talks between the island's divided Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities and called upon the U.N. Security Council to take steps to enforce earlier resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Cyprus in 1974 in response to a coupe that attempted to unite the岛 with Greece.
Britain, came as no real surprise because both nations chose not to participate in the voting for a similar resolution passed last year.
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)-The United States yesterday sought to avoid a potential split in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by refusing to endorse a U.N. resolution demanding the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus.
Security Council with Turkey, a NATO alliance partner.
Then, as now, the American and British objections stemmed from a desire to avoid a danger of conflict. The United States
A U.S. OFFICIAL said he feared that bringing the Cyprus crisis before the Security Council at this time could open the door to further crises against Turkey which we do not support."
The U.S. position, he said, was to support the resumption of serious, sustained negotiations between the two Cyrptoius delegates and to defend the U.N. Secretary General Kurt Wuldung.
Those talks remain stalled by conflicting demands over what should come first—the withdrawal of Turkish troops or Greek forces in the region, autonomy for the Turkish Cyprus minority.
SOVIET OFFICIALS said Sunday that Carrillo's account "distorts the true state of affairs." A rebuttal by the editor of the Communist party daily, Pravada, carried by the news agency Tass, said Carrillo arrived in Moscow two days before he was given an opportunity to speak at other gatherings marking the anniversary, but he declined it.
The incident suggested a dispute within the Soviet leadership, because Viktor Afremov, sent to Spain as a special Soviet agent, was known in Carloff that he could address the meeting.
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The Kremlin has given other indications of disagreements over how to handle
Suslov, in a strongly-woried speech in March 1976, called Europeancommunists opportunists and said their "regional or national versions of Marxism have nothing in common with revolutionary theory and do harm to the cause of the working people."
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