Italian Stalinist slams 'Pravda' distortions

ITALIAN Berlinguer giving a distorted version of his meetings in Moscow last week with Leonid Brezhnev and other leading In an interview published by the Italian CP newspaper 'L'Unita', Berlinguer said that 'Pravda's' comment 'did not reflect in several points the spirit and the letter of the final communique.

Passages omitted from the version of the final communique published in the Soviet paper included a reference to 'the right of every party to elaborate autonomously its own road towards the democratic and socialist transformation of society'. Fascist's nephew faces bomb charges ORSI, nephew of one of Mussolini's right-hand has been arrested by police in • Monza on charges connected bomb attacks on trains and buildings in 1969.

The Italian authorities released the anarchist Pietro Valpreda at the end of December after they had found it impossible to prove any link between him and the bombings. Valpreda was in jail for three years.

Orsi, whose uncle was Italo Balbo, was imprisoned in the San Vittore jail on Saturday evening. The owner of a motel in Ferrara, a rendezvous for the local fascist youth, heis no stranger to judicial investigations.

Last November he was questioned on his involvement in a series of attacks on synagogues, but the local magistrate, Aldo Fais, cleared him of these charges of anti-semitism.

On March 5 he was arrested for distributine leaflets which accused Andreotti government fascism and threatened of the Ferrara judiciary death.

Within a few day: 'mak his release, Orsi was ing confessions of antifascism to the press: not a fascist. What can I do about it if Italo Balbo was my uncle?' In Ferrara he lived as a lapsed hippy, mingling + ha - -2 ine ultra-ert ana tne uitra- .1a-right and thriving as a provocateur.

From being a member the fascists, he moved Stalinist leader Enrico has attacked 'Pravda' for •Pravda' also left out a phrase endorsing the need for the 'gradual overcoming of the counterposed blocs until their liquidaInstead the Soviet paper stressed that 'the CPSU and the Italian CP are fully prepared to act, on the basis of the great ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin, in the spirit of proletarian internationalism, on the decisions of the 1969 conference in order to make a new contribution to stronger unity of the international communist and working-class movement.

Berlinguer told 'L'Unita' that the reference to the 1969 Moscow meeting was 'particularly surprising since it is well known that the Italian party, which took an active part in the extremely long debate, signed only one of the four parts of the final document, the part dealing with the CORRESPONDENT Claudio Orsi. to found the Young Europe movement, "based on the teachings of Hitler and Mao Tse-tung', and then a so-called Italy-China Association. The latest twist is collaboration in an antisemitic magazine.

Orsi has continuously been in close contact with Giovanni Ventura and Franco Freda, two prominent fascists. Ventura confessed to magistrates • on Saturday that he participated in the bomb attacks on the law courts of Milan and Turin in May and July 1969.

When Franco Freda was arrested for his complicity, it was Orsi who organized two conferences to establish the innocence of his friend and begin a solidarity campaign.

The favourite venue for Ventura and Freda in Ferrara was Orsi's motel.

In a last attempt to maintain his 'ultra-left' image, Orsi has defended himself: 'All these suspicions are without any basis in fact. I've been a friend of Freda's for ten years, but I've never shared his political ideas.' Currency strains hit Common of European currencies appeared within hours of the reopening of the international foreign exchange markets.

The joint float involves the French, Belgian and Luxembourg francs, the Dutch guilder, the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian kroners and the German mark. These currencies will float against those of every other country but will attempt to maintain a fixed relationship among themselves. concrete aims imperialism.

'Our attitude has since that time.' The Italian CP secretary also affirmed his party's right to 'make up its own mind' about developments in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

He said the Italian CP 'could judge what is possible and what is not in this reality, without in any way giving lessons. But we because this builds faith in socialism, truth nOL wall lu SoCaKil Berlinguer's critical remarks were again ignored in Pravda's report of his interview with 'L'Unita' which dwelt only on the Italian leader's 'satisfaction' with the outcome of the talks.

Behind the dispute between the two parties is Moscow's desire to tighten its control over the western Communist Par• released after 3 years.

The central banks of the various countries involved have agreed to intervene in the market in support of the other members of the joint float.

On Monday, the float's first day, the German central bank had to sell Belgian francs and Swedish kroner to keep the mark within the 'tunnel' of parity values.

The participants are showing every sign of lack of confidence in the ramshackle joint float arrangements.

France has toughened still further its already stringent exchange controls, eliminating the payment of interest on foreigners' holdings in French banks. against ties at a a time of great crisis for world Stalinism. fact, Berlinguer, who hopes for a government portfolio in an Italian version of the Popular Front, is clinging grimly to his party's 'independence'. Like the British CP the Italian Stalinists criticized from a right-wing standpoint the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Their criticisms were designed to enhance their image with the middle-class and prevent a devastating split in the parties' ranks. Now Moscow aims to whip them back into line in preparation for betraying the coming revolutionary struggles in Europe.

The disagreements in break from Stalinism by munist Party, which has of counter-revolutionary Italian working class. Spain's mission to Moscow SPAIN'S director of embassies, Luis Villegas, has just returned from Moscow after a three-day • visit to fix up accommodation for the Spanish commercial mission in the Soviet capital.

A communique from Franco's Foreign Ministry stated that an official headquarters has been located near the centre of the city and that 'the attention and facilities provided by the Soviet authorities have allowed a satisfactory, rapid solution to the practical problem of the trade agreement.' Villegas must have been helped by the hospitality that the Spanish Embassy in Helsinki has given to countries involved in the European Security Conference.

The embassy has organized two meetings to discuss the military aspects of security in the Mediterranean. Participants included Portugal, Greece, Germany and . . . East Germany, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. Torture sentences EIGHT military policemen in Rio de Janeiro been sentenced to a total of 473 years in for torturing four soldiers to death last yea One of them, ex-Commander of the Armoured Battalion, Lieut-Col Gladstone asetti I Eixeira, was given seven years.

The others were a captain, a lieutenant, sergeants and two corporals.

Two members of the civilian police, also found to be involved in the killings, were sentenced to one and two years' imprisonment.

The four murdered soldiers-all aged 19-were suspected of being connected with vice and drug smuggling but had not appeared before a court.

The sentences on the torturers, however, have yet to be ratified by the Supreme Military Tribunal.

FOOD prices in the United an annual increase rate of three months.

This was claimed this we Ribicoff (Democrat), who : farm products and process at an annual rate of 30.8 six months.

Ribicoff was attempting in the senate which would cultural and meat products I this year.

Market The Benelux countries have gone even further, bringing in a negative interest rate as a discouragement to foreign holdings of their currencies.

These measures reflect the fear that the European float will be the next target of 'speculation' on the international money markets.

This lack of confidence can only encourage the holders of hot money to cover themselves against the break-up of the joint float by moving their funds to the safest currency. If this no way signify a the Italian Coma lengthy history treachery to the for army men have gaol First PernUS food prices rising at 56 p.c.

States have gone up by 56 per cent in the last ek by Senator Abraham Iso said that prices of ed foods had increased per cent over the last to introduce legislation freeze the cost of agriat their level of March happens on any scale float will collapse.

With three of the nine Common Market countries floating their currencies independently, it is becoming impossible for the EEC to carry out even such simple tasks as fixing next year's parne Prices. This was ri tarmi nrices. was nost. the vain hope that the currencies of the nine would stabilize themselves.

The EEC is disrupted by the monetary" crisis and its future is extremely tenuous.