Word: governability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aldo Moro, 59, the perennially worried-looking five-time Premier, have the dubious advantage of incumbency. Alone or in coalitions, the Partito Democrazia Cristiana has dominated Italian politics since the end of World War II-to the point that some weary party leaders complain of being "doomed to govern." In the past, the D.C. has often won national elections because middle-class Italian voters who marked the hammer-and-sickle Communist emblem on ballots in local elections as a protest were too afraid to let the Communists come to power when it really mattered...
...posters, along with the party's slogan: "The New D.C. has already begun." Speaking in Bologna last week before his attack, Mr. Clean admitted that the Communists had gone through "a significant evolution during the past ten years." But, he added, their party "is not mature enough to govern; its labored path to democracy still has a long way." Without Zaccagnini, the Christian Democrats could find it difficult to hold younger, restless voters on the party's left...
...conditions for such cooperation is an end to the suffocating predominance that the Christian Democratic Party has always exercised. The Christian Democrats [must] change their vision of how to govern the country and renew themselves. The party is made up of varied forces. There are representatives of the privileged class, but there is also a broad range of working people and popular forces. If it is to change policy the D.C. has to lose votes to the left parties. Otherwise it will continue along the same road...
...Thus Italy, reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "became a political unicycle without a spare tire. Denied the reinvigoration and change that periods in opposition allow, the Christian Democrats literally got stuck in power. As its leaders are fond of complaining, they became 'doomed to govern...
...BREADTH OF SUPPORT for the student movement has made the government's position less and less tenable. Most universities are out on strike, led by the leftist student federations; the students are backed by the opposition parties and the trade unions; associations of professors, vice-chancellors, and even university presidents have joined in condemning the reform. While the crisis does not really resemble May 1968--there has been little rioting, and few organized attempts to expand the movement's scope beyond immediate demands--continued governmental intransigence may escalate the conflict. Although Alice Saunier-Seite, secretary of education and the author...