Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall certainly have some sleepless nights." With these words, Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani last week led his ruling Christian Democratic Party into a new phase of postwar politics. Concluding a five-day congress in Naples' rococo San Carlo opera house, some 2,000 delegates approved the party's apertura a sinistra (TIME, Jan. 12), the long-discussed collaboration with the left-wing Socialists...
Behind the shift was Fanfani's urge to find new parliamentary backing for an ambitious program of social and economic reforms. Despite Italy's vast new prosperity, millions south of Rome still live in desperate poverty. Fanfani wants public-works projects, stricter taxes and more schools. But the Christian Democrats were 26 seats short of a parliamentary majority (total number of seats: 596), had to govern with the support of smaller parties, and Fanfani's projects were blocked by the government's own allies, notably the conservative, free-enterprising Liberals. Hence Fanfani's decision...
...winter rain, Italy's Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani picked up a workman's trowel and mortared the cornerstone. The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water. Yet all the fanfare was not for some vast new public utility. It was for Movie Producer Dino de Laurentiis and his new $11 million studio, located on a 750-acre site 13 miles south of Rome. It was official recognition that one of Italy's most vital export industries is its booming movie business, and that the biggest thing in Italy's movies...
Another factor in Fanfani's political strategy is the Roman Catholic Church, which has notably relaxed its opposition to the Italian left. Under the late Pope Pius XII, who threatened excommunication for Communist voters, bishops often took a direct hand in local politics, brought pressure not only against the Communist but against all left-wing parties. In contrast, Pope John believes that since Italy has survived its postwar crisis, there should be less political activity by the clergy. Recently, when one Christian Democrat threatened to form a right-wing Catholic party in opposition to Fanfani, the church disapproved...
Political Change. Under Fanfani's plan, Nenni's Socialists would get no Cabinet seats. They would support the government in Parliament by backing measures they find agreeable, abstain on others. In the case of many needed reforms, cooperation would not be difficult, but conflict will almost certainly come over such issues as Nenni's demands for nationalization of the power industry, his neutralism in foreign policy...