Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before President Kennedy took off on his trip to Europe, many a voice at home and abroad was raised in an old question with new overtones: Is this trip necessary? The impetus for the journey came from a January invitation from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, but Fanfani's government had since fallen, and the President would be visiting an Italy in political turmoil. In West Germany he would be calling on a lame-duck Chancellor; in Britain his host would be the unhappy head of a scandal-rocked Tory government. There were problems at home that needed...
...During his visit to the U.S. last January, Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani invited President and Mrs. Kennedy to come to Italy in the spring. The President accepted, added West Germany and West Berlin to the itinerary. Then, for reasons of sentiment (and domestic politics), he decided to go to Ireland too. But no sooner had the White House announced the trip than complications began setting in. Items: > In Washington, Jackie learned she was pregnant and would have to stay home...
Italy had a new Premier-designate last week. Out after nearly three years in office was scrappy little Amintore Fanfani, tagged with most of the blame for heavy Christian Democratic losses in last month's national elections. Summoned to Rome's Quirinal Palace by President Antonio Segni to get the nod as Premier was cautious, quiet Aldo Moro, secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Party...
From the other end of the political spectrum, the free-enterprising Liberals, who also made impressive election gains, were hopping mad. Liberal Leader Giovanni Malagodi bitingly labeled Moro "a taller, sadder Fanfani, but no less dangerous"; he promised to wage the "severest possible opposition" to the apertura...
Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...