Word: benigno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other watchers of the Italian scene helped out with the story. Reporter Walter Galling went to Bologna to cover the speeches of Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, and Reporter M.J. Wilson traveled to Naples on the heels of the Christian Democrats' ever-happy warrior, Amintore Fanfani. Stringer Maria Ondone flew to Sardinia to interview Berlinguer's relatives, friends and former teachers There she unearthed documents that included his baptismal certificate and an early appeal for free assembly that he wrote (in English) in 1944 to the Allied Military Government in Sardinia when he was secretary...
Democrats' party secretary, Benigno Zaccagnini, warned that any Communist victory, however narrow, would set Italy on "the road of no return." He added, "If I could be sure that the Communists, having been voted into power, would then turn around and leave it after an election defeat, I would not have any problems of principle." Thus Zaccagnini underlined a worry shared by many moderate voters: the Communists, who seemed earnest and engaging enough while they were only just seeking to build strength at the polls, might shift to a hard Leninist line and, having once gained power, refuse...
...there be a dissolution of Parliament and early elections? If so, the results of the vote could give the powerful Communist Party a major role in whatever new government was formed, even Cabinet-level positions. In order to forestall that disturbing prospect, the Christian Democrats, led by Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, had devised a scheme. They would push the idea of limited consultations between the parties-including the Communists-to agree on a common economic policy. Such a plan would avoid the need for early elections and provide a convenient way to gain the support of the Communists for economic...
...tough scrapper, the self-styled "Tuscan Pony" likes nothing better than a tussle with the Communists, whose party organ L'Unita huffily described his resurrection as "partly pathetic and partly provocative." While Fanfani makes his pitch to voters on the right, beleaguered Premier Moro, 59, and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, will try to keep the Christian Democrats' left-wing supporters in line...
...country safely through a period of "anarchy, public confusion, terror and despair. "But the price has been high. Three years ago, Marcos imposed martial law and made himself a virtual dictator. Today an estimated 6,000 political prisoners are still in jail, including former Liberal Party Secretary-General Benigno Aquino Jr., 43, who might have defeated Marcos if elections had been held in 1973 according to the constitution. Last week TIME Correspondent David Aikman interviewed Marcos and his wife Imelda, 46, at Manila 's Malacañang Palace and sent this report...