Word: longo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harriman (see cut). When the Italian government spotted the cartoon it began a criminal action against the editor, since under Italian law insults to the Pope are punishable by the government. But it could not get its case into court. Reason: the New Ways' editor is Luigi Longo, hard-bitten leader of Italy's Communist partisans during the war, and now No. 2 man in the country's Communist Party; as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he claimed parliamentary immunity. For five years the Chamber muffled every move to bring Longo to trial. Last week...