Word: longo
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...usual commentary-that one we used in 1969 will do fine." Forecasters have predicted a government victory, because again, as in previous elections, voters are unable to remember candidates' names. At Communist Party headquarters on Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), Party Boss Luigi Longo and his friends morosely pick at their pasta...
...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...
...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...