Word: longo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates to the congress, a fifth were less than 30 years old. In keeping with that youthful image is the man the congress elected deputy secretary-general and successor to aging Leader Luigi Longo. The heir apparent...
Enrico Berlinguer, 46. Longo's health is failing; a stroke victim, he can deliver long speeches only from a sitting position. The handsome, vigorous Berlin guer is therefore almost certain to take over the party's leadership well before the 1974 elections and play a large role in Italian political life for years to come...
...punctilios. The valiant North Vietnamese delegation was vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul VI, say ing that he entirely agreed with the Pope's view that too much of the West's economy was based on profit motives...
...Communist party, the biggest in the West with 1,500,000 members, had protested the August occupation of Czechoslovakia; last week's meeting quickly developed into a forum in which the Russians were reproached anew in some of the most forceful language ever used against them. Longo main tained that "the authority of the Czecho slovak leaders is a precious patrimony for all their people, for all Socialist countries, for all men in the world who believe in socialism and struggle for it." Rumanian Delegate Paul Niculescu-Mizil insisted that the Russians "lacked any justification" for their actions against...
...Boom" of Italy's thriving economy, the Communists continue to increase their popular vote. The party is eager to put together a new coalition of the left; the slogan in Bologna last week was "a political alternative to overcome the crisis." Praise for Pope Paul from Longo was meant for the ears of progressive Catholics who might join such a coalition. The party is also seeking ways, without watering down its power, to give more attention to the new left, the young radicals who are entering Italian politics. One instance of such attention: election to the party...