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...latter-day Cesare was Moro's ambitious ex-Foreign Minister, Amintore Fanfani, who left the Cabinet under fire in December because of his (and his wife's) bumbling attempts to solve the Viet Nam crisis. Fanfani forced Moro to resign in January by talking some of Moro's (and his) fellow Christian Democrats into voting down a trivial nursery-school bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Fanfani wanted more than to just get back into the Cabinet. He wanted Moro out. So he persuaded the right wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion...
...however, be quite the same lineup. For though his supporters predictably deny it, all Italy is sure it knows who led the snipers. It was little Amintore ("Il Motorino") Fanfani, who only a month ago resigned as Foreign Minister because of the political indiscretions of his wife (TIME...
...Fanfani wants to come back as Foreign Minister with an even greater say in coalition policy than he had before...
Scarcely two weeks ago he issued a "friendly warning" to Moro that a full-fledged government crisis might be in the making if the Premier did not pay more heed to the Fanfani wing of the Christian Democrats. That wing controls about 30 votes - the margin that shot down the government last week...
...Fanfani's agony, Moro spun out the farce yet another day, refusing to accept the resignation. But how much laughter must a politician suffer? A mortified Fanfani wrote again, and this time, realizing that enough was enough, Moro...