Word: apertura
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From now on, when the Italians switch on the light, they will be doing business with the government. This is, after almost eight months, the one tangible achievement of Premier Amintore Fanfani's center-left coalition, the much-heralded apertura a sinistra...
Dreams of Solidarity. The big question about the apertura is whether it will be able to pull the Socialists away from their longstanding alliance with the Communists. Nenni apparently now wants this, but his formidable powers of persuasion are currently handicapped: he is still recuperating from a near fatal fall in a ravine this summer. Many of his party comrades are hypnotized by the idea of "working-class solidarity." Today, Socialists and Communists jointly run numerous local governments and agricultural cooperatives that are difficult to unscramble...
...Milan and ten other cities, the Socialists did move away from the Reds even before the apertura, and since then the process was repeated in two more cities. Mantua and La Spezia. But a real split between the parties is a long way off. Last week Fanfani's Christian Democrats demanded that the Socialists officially break with the Communists and ratify the move at a party congress. The Socialists shook the coalition by refusing even to hold such a meeting...
...first popular test for Italy's new center-left coalition government, which grew out of Premier Amintore Fan-fani's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) last February. In a heavy turnout, 3,000,000 voters cast ballots in municipal and provincial elections. Result: a sharp defeat for political extremism, both right and left...
...biggest gains were scored by the Liberals, a small party (membership: 190,000) with a right-of-center, free-enterprising program which had opposed the apertura a sinistra. The Liberals' strong showing suggested a distrust of the left, a belief that free-enterprise capitalism can do most for Italy's new and growing middle class. Despite this slight pull to the right, Premier Fanfanrs alliance had weathered its first test at the polls. His Christian Democrats' vote dipped a bit, but their coalition partners did well. As Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti complained, the elections reflected an unmistakable...