Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party's decision to withdraw support for the government, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously printed the embarrassing story that the CIA had been authorized to give $6 million in secret aid to non-Communist Italian parties-most of it, apparently, to the ruling Christian Democrats. Then, the day after Premier Moro rode to the Palazzo del Quirinale to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, millions of workers walked off the job in a general strike that shut down airports, closed most government offices and schools and slowed down sectors of industry. The workers were...
...increasingly powerless role in the 13-month-old Moro coalition. Always reluctant to lose protest votes by joining directly in the government, the Socialists, who have 61 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, had not accepted any Cabinet posts. All the portfolios were held by Moro's fellow Christian Democrats (267 seats) and the small right-of-center Republican Party...
Socialist unease grew after last June's regional elections, when Communists took a startling 33% of the vote. Anxious Christian Democrats began a series of behind-the-scenes accommodations with Communists, to such an extent that the Socialists felt left out in the cold. The most provocative issue was Christian Democratic consultation with the Communists about a $33 billion economic redevelopment program. Though the Socialists were officially allied with the government, De Martino complained in a letter to Moro that "I have to read about [the program] in the paper." Worse yet, the plan would have left the administration...
...Christian Democrats rejected the Socialist scenario immediately. They particularly objected to the demand that the Communists should formalize their tacit support of the government. Reason: it would fuel voter fears that the Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...
...various party politicians in an effort to form a new government. De Martino, responding to labor-union fury over early elections, allowed at week's end that the Socialists would "evaluate and consider" counterproposals to their demands, but the hope is nevertheless dim. Conceivably, Moro, or some other Christian Democratic leader, could try to rule with a new minority government, but it would probably fail its first parliamentary test. Worse, it would only postpone any real attempt to solve Italy's urgent problems...