Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement. And three years later, I was a Georgia representative." Almost as if he planned to make as many people furious as quickly as possible, Young went on to suggest (without citing any evidence) that supporters of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, rather than black nationalist guerrillas, had massacred Christian missionaries at Elim last month and that France had intervened in the Katangese invasion of Zaire's Shaba province primarily for economic motives...
...painstaking task of bringing Egypt and Israel back to the bargaining table could be ruined if renewed fighting in Lebanon sparked another confrontation between Syria and Israel. A tenuous truce brought a measure of calm to the country, where clashes two weeks ago between Syrian peace-keeping forces and Christian militiamen left 200 dead, most of them civilians. Both sides used the lull to bring heavy reinforcements into Beirut. Israel continued to supply military equipment to the rightist Christian armies of Pierre Gemayel and Camille Chamoun, who have been engaged in a bloodletting feud with forces loyal to former Lebanese...
...national acceptance, the Communists were willing to promote Pertini out of leftist loyalty. In addition, the avuncular, pipe-smoking Socialist, a former speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, was acceptable to the centrist Republicans and Social Democrats who complete the five-party parliamentary majority that supports the government of Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti...
Although the post is largely ceremonial, the President has the power to appoint premiers and to choose the moment for calling national elections. For that reason, the Christian Democrats were reluctant to surrender their hold on the office to another party. Beyond that, they felt that Pertini was being "imposed" on them by the ambitious Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. While negotiations to break the impasse continued behind closed doors, the electors went through 15 inconclusive ballots, with the proceedings broadcast on national television. Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite...
After Pertini disengaged from formal Socialist backing by withdrawing briefly, the Christian Democrats finally relented. On Saturday's 16th ballot, Pertini won with 832 votes-the largest total ever gained by an Italian presidential candidate. Although many right-wing Christian Democrats were disappointed by the outcome, few had any personal quarrel with Pertini. A native of Savona, on the Italian Riviera, he was imprisoned several times between 1925 and the end of World War II for his underground resistance work-first against Mussolini's fascist regime, later against the Nazis. He was co-founder of the postwar Socialist...