Italy's Communist Party has a new look these days: young. The average age of the Central Committeemen elected at the party's recent Bologna congress is only 43 and only eight of the 171 members are veterans of the days when the party was formed in 1921.
Of the 1,041 delegates to the congress, a fifth were less than 30 years old. In keeping with that youthful image is the man the congress elected deputy secretary-general and successor to aging Leader Luigi Longo. The heir apparent:
Enrico Berlinguer, 46. Longo's health is failing;...
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