Word: christiane
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...took place in the glassy modernistic Palazzo dei Congressi outside Rome. There, amid red bunting, Communist flags and green-white-and-red Italian tricolors, slender Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, 53, formally opened the campaign at a massive rally. He called for "an end to the disastrous predominance of the Christian Democrats" and urged voters to "give Italy a government that's different." Significantly, the overflow audience that roared approval of Berlinguer's words was mostly young and middle class...
...Neofascists. Thus began the premature election campaign-the most important in Italy since World War II. The central question: whether the Christian Democrats will remain Italy's dominant party or whether the Communists will at last come to share power nationally. The prospect worries many in the West, particularly in the U.S. Attending the NATO meeting in Oslo last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once more pointed up the dangers in talks with other delegates...
Since the fall of the most recent Christian Democratic government -an event that forced the early election-the Communists have had to accelerate their political timetable. In the long run, they still seek a "historic compromise" in which they would share power with the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. In the short run, though, they have become less gradualist. Last week, citing "impelling needs of the present," Berlinguer called for an emergency government of "national solidarity" which would involve all parties except the extreme right neofascists...
Some new and-for Italy-daring campaign maneuvers are being introduced in this election. To offset the same kind of voter distrust that has generated anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead...
Worried Pope. In the biggest surprise of all, the party also lined up six dissident Catholic intellectuals, including Raniero la Valle, former editor of the Christian Democratic newspaper Il Popolo, and Paolo Brezzi, a noted scholar of Christian history. The coup obviously startled Pope Paul, who referred elliptically to the election as "the forthcoming sociopolitical event," and angrily complained at a weekly audience: "Sometimes our dearest friends, our most trusted colleagues, those who share our table, are the very ones who turn against us." With the Pope's concurrence, Bologna's Antonio Cardinal Poma noted in his keynote...