Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfani's Worry. This gadfly role has drawn upon Malagodi the combined fire of all Italy's major parties. The Communists rarely let a day pass without belaboring him as "a tool of big business." Amintore Fanfani, the busy little boss of the Christian Democrats, has publicly threatened to exclude the Liberals from future Cabinets. (Says Malagodi, chortling, "Fanfani's palms are sweating...
Chances are that Fanfani is indeed sweating. Under Italy's new electoral law-a complex melange of straight and proportional representation-the Communists and Christian Democrats will have to increase their ballot by between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes in order not to lose parliamentary seats. By contrast, an increase of only 400,000 votes-half what they polled in the last election-could double the number of Liberal seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
Should that happen-and many Italian pundits believe it will-the Christian Democrats, for all Fanfani's threats, will almost certainly need Liberal support to form a government, and to obtain it will have to pay more heed to the gadfly voice of Giovanni Malagodi. "The reawakening of the Liberal Party," declared Rome's Il Messaggero last week, "constitutes the one new fact in this campaign . . . and it augurs well for Italian democracy...
...divorce granted for desertion or adultery. The new recommendation sanctions divorce when "a marriage dies at the heart and the union becomes intolerable," and permits remarriage of any divorced person in whom "sufficient penitence for sin and failure is evident, and a firm purpose of, and endeavor after, Christian marriage is manifested." The new proposal is not yet church law; it must first be approved by three-fourths of the 83 presbyteries, then by next year's General Assembly...
...delegates defeated a scheme to use churches as schools to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the public schools. They voted 288 to 124 against a well-organized minority drive to abolish the denomination's anti-segregation-minded Council on Christian Relations, then read into the record a ringing statement on race...