Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government put up pistol-packing Father Dweihi as a candidate only to discredit the Franjieh clan and to block his own chances at the presidency...
...Last week, a little better off-thanks to the $200 million which Italian governments have pumped into Sardinia's poverty-stricken economy in the past four years (TIME, May 21, 1956)-the islanders reversed their Communist trend (the Red vote fell off from 22.3% to 17.5%). The dominant Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille Lauro, founder and sole proprietor of Italy's Popular Monarchist Party-Italy's most colorful politician...
...autographed portrait of King Umberto II that graced his desk has recently disappeared -Lauro has no illusions about restoring the House of Savoy. His more modest goal is to build the sagging Italian right into a political force strong enough to help govern Italy in coalition with the Christian Democrats...
...Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...
...while last week, sleek and shrewd Amintore Fanfani, organizational boss of the Christian Democratic Party, tried to establish an Italian government. When Fanfani failed, Italy's ambitious President Giovanni Gronchi pulled a surprise. He renamed as Premier rotund, outspoken Adone Zoli, who tried and failed last month to form a government. Blandly reminding one and all that he had never accepted Zoli's resignation, the President informed Zoli that he is thus still Premier. Question: Will the Italian Chamber of Deputies think...