Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope's host will be a familiar face: Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani, 57, elected president of the General Assembly's 20th session soon after it was gaveled to order last week. Fanfani, twice Premier of Italy, who won out over Yugoslavia's former Foreign Minister Koca Popovic, is the first Western European since 1960 to head the Assembly...
Nuclear Swap. For all the new optimism on the East River, Fanfani faces an agenda that gives little hope of smooth sailing. Once more, Red Chinese membership will be proposed, though with less feeling: Peking's brutal ultimatum to India has undoubtedly cost it some support among non-aligned countries. There will be demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from...
Johnson plainly enjoyed the company of Moro and his party, which included Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani. And he probably made more of a show of it than usual because he was under criticism for having postponed the visits of Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...
...elect one of their own, the Christian Democrats had to unite behind a single candidate. A party caucus gave the nod to Lawyer Giovanni Leone, but many Christian Democratic Deputies refused to be bound by the decision. Indeed, ex-Premier Amintore Fanfani finally captured more than 100 of the 399 Christian Democratic votes available but withdrew after the eleventh ballot because of the combined pressure of the Vatican and his party chiefs. Fanfani was feared because he is shrewd, inventive (he created the "opening to the left" regime that still rules Italy) and unpredictable...
Even with Fanfani out, the Christian Democrats still could not decide on a single candidate. As the balloting droned on into Italy's longest electoral deadlock, impatient Italians recalled the 13th century papal conclave at Viterbo that lasted for 31 years without naming a new Pope. In that long-ago time, the citizens of Viterbo finally locked the cardinals inside a palace, and when that failed, they tore off the roof to let in rain and cold. That did it, and the cardinals elected Gregory...