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...rejected by some hard-liners within the party, who were brought up on the classic revolutionary dogma of unending class struggle. Nonetheless, it was virtually certain that the delegates would approve the secretary's platform. The larger question was the reaction of other Italian political parties. Amintore Fanfani, the conservative secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, remains adamantly opposed. "If the Christian Democrats do not want to commit suicide," he said earlier this month, "they must say no to the compromesso storico tomorrow, as well as today." But left-wing Christian Democrats are not that opposed to the idea...
...center-left coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, headed by former Premier Mariano Rumor, fell apart last month over what measures should be taken to deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who has three times before served as Premier (1963-68), to see if he would have better luck...
Underlying the squabble over economics was the major shift in Italy's complex political power balance that resulted from the national referendum on the 3½-year-old divorce law last month (TIME, May 27). Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Christian Democrats and a four-time Premier himself, had turned the referendum into a test of strength. "A vote for divorce is a vote for the Communists," went one Christian Democratic slogan. But when the ballots were counted, Europe's most Catholic country had retained its divorce law by a 3-to-2 vote; and by inference...
Stump Speeches. For nearly two months, political leaders had turned from Italy's problems-social unrest, a 14.3% annual rate of inflation, and a possible $12 billion balance of payments deficit-while they stumped the country making fiery speeches for or against divorce. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Christian Democratic Party, led the fight for repeal, pleading with voters to save the "integrity of the family and future of our children." Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer countered that divorce was "just and unexpendable...
...Fanfani, who was emerging as Italy's most powerful politician, the failure of the referendum was a bruising personal setback. "Until now Fanfani has run the Christian Democrats like a despot," said a Socialist official. "He won't be able to do that any more." The Communists, generally delighted by the outcome of the referendum, may find that the Christian Democrats' weakness will dim prospects for the "historic compromise" between left and right that Enrico Berlinguer has proposed between Italy's two largest parties...