Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politics. The basic struggle is between the Communists and a coalition headed by Regional President Franco Restivo, a simple, honest Demo-Christian who has led Sicily with the support of the Monarchists and occasional backing of the small center parties. "Eight years of Accomplishment" proclaimed the Demo-Christian banners...
...faltering regime of Premier Mario Scelba, who might gain a few months' more of power from a solid Christian-Democratic victory in his native Sicily...
...dented prestige of Demo-Christian Boss Amintore Fanfani, who has made the Sicilian contest a test of his organizing prowess, and has sent in a posse of young and enthusiastic party workers...
...Christian Democrats need to do," said one young party worker, "is to invite the voters to look around. Here in Agrigento eight years ago, we had only one badly attended cinema, now we have three and they are all full; three cafes, now at least a dozen. Eight years ago the province had ice cream only on special feast days, now everybody in every small town can buy ice cream every day of the year...
...statement of the church's Permanent Commission deploring the Roman Catholic "trend to exalt the figure of the Virgin Mother to the office of associate partner in the work of redemption." This development, said the statement, "has widened the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian communions...