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Improbable as it seems to many of its present-day critics, the party started out as a genuinely reformist movement. Established early in this century by a populist priest from Sicily, Don Luigi Sturzo, the Christian Democratic movement was the first mass-based Catholic party in Italy. Dissolved by Mussolini and revived after World War II, the party reached its greatest national strength in the late 1940s. Under Sturzo's protege Alcide de Gasperi, it held an absolute majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and expelled the Communists from De Gasperi's fourth postwar unity Cabinet...
...Italy, Luigi Gui lost his job as Minister of the Interior. He had been Defense Minister in 1970, when the Italian government bought 14 C-130 transports from Lockheed for $60 million despite protests from opposition politicians that Italian-made planes were just as effective and cost less. Now a Lockheed memo, made public by the Church subcommittee, discloses that in 1970 the company paid $2.2 million to Italian agents, who passed on "more than 85%" of it to government officials. The reason, according to Lockheed Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Carl Kotchian: "An Italian Senator" told a Lockheed...
...months after early signs of recovery from recession became visible in the U.S., they are appearing in Europe, too. They are confined to a few key indicators (auto sales, appliance and consumer buying) and are most evident in two key countries: West Germany and France. Nonetheless, says Italian Economist Luigi Spaventa, voicing a general European view, "I expect we've hit bottom. Now it depends on how long we keep crawling along down there...
...current listing of the world's leading architects would certainly include such globally known powers as Japan's Kenzo Tange, Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, England's James Stirling, and I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson, among some others, in the U.S. Another entry, however, would have to be Alvar Aalto of Finland, who, at 77, may well still be the most original designer building anywhere. Aalto? He is scarcely a household name in the U.S., because he has done little work in America.* But "the maestro," as he is often called in his native land, remains...
...Died. Luigi Cardinal Raimondi, 62, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. from 1967 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Rome. Named a cardinal in 1973, Raimondi returned to Rome, where he headed the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints...