The World - News from Feb. 11, 1985
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The French Communist Party reelected Georges Marchais to a fifth three-year term as party leader. Marchais, 64, was named at the party’s 25th congress, which resisted calls for reform from dissident members to reverse the party’s decline in popularity. The rejected reforms included a tougher stand on human rights violations in the Soviet Bloc and less emphasis on Soviet-style methods in setting policy.
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