Word: benigno
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FIVE YEARS AGO, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines imposed martial law on his country and inaugurated what has developed into one of the most repressive regimes in the world today. The injustice of this regime received striking confirmation this past week when a military court convicted Benigno Aquino, a former senator and Marcos's main political opponent, of subversion, murder, and illegal possession of firearms, and sentenced him to death...
Dubious Charges. The captured Buscayno will go on trial this week before a military tribunal-along with his second in command in the N.P.A., Victor Corpuz, and Benigno Aquino Jr., the former Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate, who has been confined for the past four years on dubious charges that he was an N.P.A. leader.* They will almost surely be convicted, but they stand a good chance of a presidential pardon if they make confessions and come over to the government side...
Stymied, Andreotti and Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini decided to acknowledge shifts of power in Parliament, where Communist strength after the election nearly equalled the Christian Democrats'. Veteran Communist Deputy Pietro Ingrao, 61, in an agreement between parties, was named president of the Chamber of Deputies. And last week the Communists for the first time were awarded seven of 26 parliamentary committee chairmanships, including key posts in economic and fiscal areas. In return, the Communists were expected to allow Andreotti to install his government by abstaining rather than voting against him when he submitted his monocolore Cabinet...
Some 37 million Italian voters went to the polls. The Christian Democrats, under their reform-minded Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, had played down responsibility for a sick economy with 20% inflation, 7% unemployment and a $20 billion deficit. Zaccagnini spoke instead of a "policy of renewal" within the party; Christian Democrats everywhere had played on fears that Italy-and the Western Alliance-would be changed irrevocably if Communists were allowed a share in government...
Moro was joined on the campaign trail by Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, who last week was felled by a prostate attack in Bologna. In a party that had been plagued by ineptitude and corruption, Zaccagnini, despite his age, had been billed as a fresh face and a genuine "Mr. Clean": his picture is on most D.C. campaign posters, along with the party's slogan: "The New D.C. has already begun." Speaking in Bologna last week before his attack, Mr. Clean admitted that the Communists had gone through "a significant evolution during the past ten years." But, he added...