Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles, from high prices to bad schools. While not gaining nearly so much as in 1963, the Reds did increase their majority .04% over their total in last year's parliamentary elections. They gained in central Italy, tightened their hold on the "Red belt" of Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna, became the biggest party in Florence. The Christian Democrats were off more than 1% from last year, 3% from 1960, and lost 59 provincial council seats throughout the country. The Nenni Socialists slipped badly. Of the minor parties, only the conservative Liberals continued to grow. The party position...
...with the Nenni Socialists, would build up powerful grass-roots political machines. Giovanni Malagodi, leader of the free-enterprising Liberals, who were dropped from Fanfani's coalition, warned that the rearrangement would make possible "a federation of little Red republics" in such Communist strongholds as Umbria, Tuscany and Emilia...
...single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes to make things easier for them at public school. In her drab apartment over a garage, Emilia Rasco keeps smiling. "We are free," she explains...
Raising the cry of "Fascism," the Communists briskly organized other riots, happily saw many non-Communists join them for once in common cause. In Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, a policeman was trapped in a crowd of Communist toughs. He panicked and began shooting, and five rioters were killed...
Though Italian Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti mustered thousands of mourners at the funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...