Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before them, on the pavement under a budding willow tree, was an impromptu folk memorial to the five bodyguards who had been murdered during the kidnaping of Aldo Moro, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Party and a former Premier. The memorial is now a symbol of what the Italian press has come to call, among many other things, the "Strage di Gioveìi Nero"- the Massacre of Black Thursday. Several hundred bouquets of flowers were piled neatly in front of a low cross. Pinned to the cross in a cellophane shield were five newspaper photos of the dead...
Terrorism has seriously afflicted Italy for four sorry years, but no instance of kidnaping, extortion or assassination has ever before so enraged the nation or so threatened its tenuous political posture. As chairman of the Christian Democrats, Moro was the architect of the carefully devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President...
...common fear among politicians was that without Moro and his gift for compromise, the faction-ridden Christian Democrats could lose their grip at a particularly sensitive moment-"a big body without the brain," as one deputy put it. But the danger threatened not only the Christian Democrats. Said Communist Chief Enrico Berlinguer: "The calculated, determined attack aimed against one of the most eminent figures of our political life marks a moment of extreme national gravity and a danger for the republic." Added Christian Democratic Deputy Luigi Granelli: "The kidnapers have a political goal-that of destabilizing the country." To cope...
...terrorist action was aimed at rupturing the growing accommodation between the governing Christian Democrats and the Communists, as many leftists were prone to suspect, the effect, for the moment at least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...Washington's worst-kept secrets is that Richard Strout leads a double life. Most days, Strout is a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, spinning out four or five articles a week for that Boston-based daily. Every Tuesday, however, he shuts his office door, sits down at his rolltop desk and becomes the pseudonymous TRB, author of the syndicated (50 newspapers) New Republic column that many colleagues call the liveliest, best-researched, most passionately liberal political commentary in town...