Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the pact was announced, Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat received a packet rigged to explode when opened. It was hardly a brotherly act, and Fatah was quick to blame Israeli agents. There was some suspicion, however, that rival Arab commandos might have been the guilty senders...
...ACT I. In the 1940s, the Socialists under longtime Leader Pietro Nenni participate in the Christian Democratic government. But ideologically, they often cooperate with the Communists. This so enrages the Christian Democrats that they toss Nenni out as Foreign Minister. It so troubles the moderate Socialists that they split off and regroup as the Italian Socialist Workers' Party and later as the Social Democrats...
...ACT II. In the 1950s, Nenni himself finally draws away from the Communists. He helps prepare the way for the famous apertura a sinistra, the Christian Democrats' opening to the left in which, by 1963, they once more admit the Socialists into the government...
...ACT III. To strengthen the center left government and push the social reforms that Italy badly needs, Nenni in 1966 agrees with the Social Democrats to reunite the old Socialist Party factions. It does not turn out to be a profitable reunion. In Italy's 1968 national elections left-wing voters disenchanted with the center-left government vote for the Communist Party, which picks up nearly 800,000 new votes. The Socialists lose four seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
...ACT IV. Trying to recoup some of their losses, left-wing Socialists start making overtures to the Communists again. They are led by Deputy Premier and Party General Secretary Francesco de Martino, a 62-year-old law professor who learned how to tack and test the winds as a yachtsman on the Bay of Naples. He sees to it that far-left factions slowly take control of the party machinery. This infuriates the ex-Social Democrats; their leader, Giuseppe Saragat, has been President of the Republic for four years and is presumably above politics. But others angrily threaten to bolt...