Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, June 8, 1976 Italian Communist attitudes questioned ROME (+'4 - Italian Commu- nist leaders, driving for a big vote in crucial national elec- tions, have been pledging loy- alty to NATO and friendly ties with the United States. But the party's daily newspaper, ap- parently catering to the anti- West card - carrying faithful, hasn't stopped hitting at "the American imperialist system." Party Secretary Enrico Ber- linguer insists that Italian Communists want no unilater- al weakening of the North At- lantic Treaty Organization. He even commented at a meeting of leftist intellectuals in May that his search for a new Com- munist model has led dogmatic leaders in some Communist countries to fear the possibility of his party coming to power after the June 20-21 elections. LAST DECEMBER, when there was little talk of parlia- mentary elections a year ahead of schedule, a headline in the party organ Unita read- "The nuclear bases of the United States in Italy threaten secur- ity and health." U. S. officials look with dis- favor on a Communist role in the Italian government, and both President Ford and U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kis- singer have said that if the Communists enter the govern- ment Washington will reassess its relationship with Rome. Many analysts believe the Italian party's 1.7 million card- carrying members trail far be- hind their leaders in making ideological room for Western democratic liberties and the military system that has been built to defend them. SOME SAY the Italian Com- munist leaders are themselves divided between the free West and the Soviet Union and de- liberately want to maintain a certain ambiguity between the blatantly pro-Soviet approach of the past and the newly pro- claimed one. This ambiguity would provide greater room for maneuvering on the interna- tional scene. On May 5, Unita said in a front-page editorial by its for- eign commentator Alberto Ja- covielli: "We have not concealed nor do we intend to conceal that be- tween the United States and Italy there are problems to be discussed. But we believe that they can be discussed and solv- ed in a spirit of friendship, mu- tual respect and safeguarding mutual sovereignty." IN THE same issue on Page 3 Unita correspondent Guido Vi- cario denounced the "imperial order of the dollar in Latin America" and described Cuban military activities in Angola as the "courageous policy of anti - imperialistic solidarity." In April, Sergio Segre, the party's shadow foreign minis- ter, told a conference on Italian foreign affairs, "On the mili- tary level the Italian Commu- nist party wants Italy to re- main in NATO . . . Detente has become possible also thanks to the balance of forces." But Giovanni Berlinguer, younger brother, of Eurico and also a Communist deputy, told a conference in December that the U. S. support base for no- clear submarines at La Madda- lena in Sardinia "posed a threat to the national sover- eignty of Italy and to the pro- cess of international detente." UNITA described this as of- ficial party policy. It said: "This applies not only for La Maddalena but also for Taran- to, La Spezia. Naples and all nuclear sites in Italy." Giorgio Bocca, Socialist his- torian and journalist, warns against "taking as solid gold the statements of Communist leaders." "ONE should never ignore the composite structure of the Communist party in Italy," Bocca said. Inside the party, he added, "you can find every- thing, from sincere democrats to those who say any road is good to get into the govern- ment. Once in there, we will take care of everything." In Piombino, a Tyrrhenian coastal town near Florence, long ruled by Marxists, rank- file Communists reacted vari- ously to the illustration of the party's stand on NATO and the West by a central official re- cently. "Older Communists seemed to react with a sense of disci- pline but the young ones were trying to capitalize on certain ambiguities," a participant re- ported. He added: "AT A certain point, someone raised the question: If the So- viets invade Yugoslavia, what will we do? Will we side with the Russians or with the Amer- icans? Except for a couple of youths no one said he would side with the Soviets. But there was obviously confusion." Stefano Silvestri, secretary of the privately sponsored Ital- ian Institute of Foreign Affairs, said that in private talks Com- munist leaders sometimes sound even more pro-West than in public statements, as if they were keen to press home the fact that they have to move cautiously before their tradi- tional supporters. Silvestri, 34, said, "Ber- linguer leaves some room for hesitation and ambiguity be- cause in my opinion he wants to have elbow room." GIUSEPPE ARE,an analyst who was a Communist until Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956, says he sees nothing more than "symptoms" of profound ideo- logical revision in the party's foreign policy. Jean Corduroy', S aleeds All: Lee &Wranglerx Corduroys S71299 reg. $12.00 Wrangler Western Flare } Denim S6n99 reg.,$1.00f: Sale ends x Thursday M-S: 9:30- -5:30 FRI - TIL 8 761-6207 330 S. STATE ST, (Nickels Arcade) Suit filed against ATT for equipment monopoly NEW YORK (MP) - Two sub- sidiaries of Litton Industries Inc. filed a $111 million anti- trust suit yesterday charging American Telephone & Tele- graph Co. with monopolizing the telephone terminal equipment manufacturing market. Under antitrust law, any dam- ages awarded to Litton would be tripled, equalling $333 million. IN THE SUIT, filed in U.S. District Court in Manahattan, Litton charged it had been un- able to compete in the making, selling and distributing of var- ious specialized telephone equip- ment partly because of alleged political payments and pressure by AT&T aimed at state regula- tory bodies. The complaint did not specify the dates such payments took place or which state regulatory agencies were involved. Litton lawyers could not be reached for comment. The suit named as co-defen- dants AT&T, Western Electric Co. Inc., Bell Telephone Labora- tories Inc., and seven AT&T operating companies. It also named 16 other Bell operating companies an nondefendant co- conspirators. THE SUIT said the Federal Communications Commission ruled in 1968 that telephone cus- tomers could connect their own telyephone equipment to the Bell System. Another FCC ruling last March said AT&T's requirement that telephone equipment made by Bell's competitors could be connected only after AT&T pro- vided an interface device was "unlawfully discriminatory." Litton alleged in the suit that the defendants had, through their actions, illegally prevented equipment field both before and competition in the telephone after the original 1968 FCC rul- ing. Litton said it and other com- petitors of AT&T are being forced out of the telephone equipment business because of the alleged monopolization. THE SUIT claimed AT&T had achieved a 98 per cent monopoly of telephone terminal equipment in U.S. markets. Among other things, the suit asked the federal court to order AT&T to divest itself of any "non-public utility business of renting, leasing and selling tele- phone terminal equipment .. and to carry on the non-public utility business as a separate division." 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