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Word: congressi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central act in the Communist kickoff 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Communists Seize the Initiative | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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