Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AFTER the Italian elections, the Roman newspaper of the right, II Popolo, came out with banner headlines: "Victory for the Christian Democrats." The same edition of Paese Sera, a leftist paper, was headed: "Communists Advance." Clearly, the "Italian situation" remains unresolved...
...that government turns out to be one of the DC alone, another coalition of the "center-left," or the "Historic Compromise," a government of DC and the Communists (PCI). A compromise would probably be the most representative of the mood of the country but, given the Byzantine mechanics of Italian politics, it is the least likely...
...other major industrial nations−an insistent Canada was invited along with Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Japan−will gather at President Ford's request. The potential domestic political benefit of summitry in his struggle for the Republican presidential nomination has hardly escaped Ford. That, and the Italian elections, probably account for the timing. Whatever the motivation, there is no shortage of real-life problems crying for attention: the economic woes of Britain and Italy and their sagging currencies, the fragmented approach of the industrial nations to their economic negotiations with the developing world and, above...
...most important weapons of American intervention abroad. The bulk of its covert operations and funds have been directed toward interfering with free elections all over the world and toward providing military and financial support for dissident groups favored by American policy makers, such as the neo-fascist Italian general Miceli. The responsibility for these abuses--interfering with elections, directing coups and assassinations, training foreign secret police in torture techniques--lies with the administrations that have directed foreign policy, and particularly with Kissinger during his tenure as National Security Advisor. Hence the CIA cannot be reformed merely by bringing it under...
...American policy. Kissinger's intense opposition to governmental participation by Italy's Communist party--based on the increasingly anachronistic assumption that European Communist parties are part of a monolithic bloc under Soviet domination--is both shortsighted in terms of American interests and insensitive to the needs of the Italian people. The PCI's rise is the product of long-term changes in Italian society, economy and politics--changes which are unlikely to be reversed. American interference is unlikely to prevent an eventual PCI victory; it will only antagonize the electorate. Furthermore, a compromise between the Christian Democratic and Communist parties...