Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Jewish voters, many upper-middle-class whites, Negroes, women, McCarthyites, blue-collar workers, young professionals and white-collar workers in the East, all turned out heavily for Mr. Humphrey. Southerners voted for Mr. Wallace. Apparently Mr. Nixon was elected solely by wealthy white Christian male Americans outside of the South. Amazing...
Instant Replay. The latest crisis is rooted in the 1963 decision by the Italian Socialist party to break its postwar alliance with the Communists and join the Christian Democrats in a centerleft coalition, the much-discussed apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left. In the Socialists' opinion, the opening never came, because the government proved to be more center than left. The Socialists complained that the Christian Democrats never delivered on promised economic and social reforms. As a result, in May's general election, the Socialists lost one-quarter of their votes to the extreme left...
...Christian Democrats, meanwhile, installed a minority government, temporizing until the Socialists could return to the fold. The Socialist pezzi grossi (big shots) expected to get support for the return at last month's party congress in Rome. "Here we are, five months after the election and in a worse position," declared Pietro Nenni, at 77 the party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership...
Unreliable Partners. Nenni decided that within the party executive, away from the noisy rank-and-file, he might win agreement to reopen negotiations with the Christian Democrats. But even there he came up with only 52% of the votes. With partners like that, the Christian Democrats asked, who needs an opposition...
Last week, however, it turned out that the Christian Democrats were not so reliable themselves. On the eve of the annual party congress, Giovanni Leone, the Neapolitan lawyer who had guided the minority government during the five months since the election, abruptly handed in his resignation. He figured that his fellow Christian Democrats were going to fire him, so he quit. In rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from...