Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predicted that a change in the situation may come if, as he expects, the Italian Communist vote helps elect Fanfani to replace Premier Segni who has just resigned...
Complicated Failure. It was to avoid just such a result, and to "isolate" the Communists, that former Premier Amintore Fanfani created the apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left, in 1962. Fanfani reasoned that by forming a coalition government between his Christian Democrats and the left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni, he would 1) rob the Communists of their strongest allies, and 2) give himself room to press for domestic reforms without foot-dragging by conservative parties...
...halt ingly, write with his left hand. But it seemed unlikely that he could ever resume the full duties of President, and the scramble was on for the succession with no clear winner in sight. Among the most likely: former Christian Dem crat Premier and center-left architect Amintore Fanfani; Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat, a Social Democrat strongly in favor of European unity; former Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni, now national president of the Christian Democrats...
...represents the most inoffensive compromise between the others-got absolutely nowhere in his battle to control the whole party. Just the reverse. Because the Christian Democrats' factions are split by ambitions rather than ideology, several top party members are gunning for him. Among them: ex-Premier Armintore Fanfani, Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, who heads the faction that includes President Antonio Segni...
Moro's colorless caution was the very quality that boosted him to political prominence. Five years ago, after sharp-tongued Amintore Fanfani quit in a huff as Christian Democratic leader-in a dispute over his then still heavily opposed plans for an opening to the left-party elders looked for a replacement. He had to be a man nobody was mad at, and Moro filled the bill. Although Fanfani later became Premier for more than two years, Moro stayed on as the party's chief strategist. No less vigorous than Fanfani in his advocacy of the center-left...