Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election is the most important since 1948, when the Communists were defeated in a crucial bid for power. The threat of a Red takeover has long since faded; this time the main issue is continuation of the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), Premier Amintore Fanfani's year-old experiment in parliamentary cooperation with the left-wing Socialists...
Mixed Blessing. The deal has given Fanfani the necessary majority to introduce a long list of economic and social reforms; it also provides the opportunity for isolating the Reds by finally breaking their hold on Pietro Nenni's Socialists...
...apertura also opens the way to far-reaching government planning and higher taxes, both of which are strongly opposed by large and small businessmen; perhaps significantly, Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi, an economic conservative who sharply criticizes Fanfani's flirtation with the left, has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. Another anxiety created by the center-left coalition is that Neutralist Nenni will weaken Italy's ties to the Atlantic alliance. These fears could cost Fanfani's Christian Democrats as many as 1,000,000 votes...
...refer to Premier Fanfani and his aides [Feb. 22 | as "bassotti" (dachshunds) for their shortness. Though not a Fanfani fan, I object to such a derisive classification...
...Still, Fanfani figures to stay on top. Of the six nations in the Common Market, Italy's estimated 6% growth rate this year is the highest; at about 1,000,000, unemployment is half the 1956 level. Many Italians fear that flirtation with that old Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni will eventually lead Italy down the path to neutralism. But so far, Nenni has pulled to the right in international affairs, away from his longtime Communist allies. He has even halfheartedly endorsed a NATO nuclear force. Nenni was probably saved a little Socialistic embarrassment when the U.S. recently agreed...