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Similar developments took place elsewhere in Italy. Using a combination of Christian moral ideals and political realism, the party shepherded the country through a long period of tricky and often wrenching social change, while managing to maintain social peace. Says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, a former "independent left" Deputy: "If I were a Christian Democrat, I would point out the undeniable facts of recent history-'We took in our arms a country with homes destroyed, with streets in the air, with unemployment between 6 million and 7 million -the worst in Europe, and perhaps in the world. Then...
Some local bosses maintain a sort of closed party shop, stuffing the membership rolls with cronies-or, as party reformers themselves say, even the names of dead people, for whom they pay membership dues. The result has been an entrenched elite, inured to change and the claims to power of young, reformist members. Complains Giovanni Prandini, 36, a Christian Democratic Deputy from Brescia: "The whole party is designed and built for the indefinite preservation of power, not its passage. It is organized in a strict oligarchy that blocks the young, either by compromising or suffocating them...
...marriage has too often cajoled a woman into deriving her identity from her partner, "just as when she was growing up her whole family derived its 'identity' (social status and community 'image') from the father's reputation and social position." The special effort it takes for a woman to maintain her independence in a love relationship can make you wonder whether it's worth...
...years to assist in the development of the minority student program of the Harvard Medical School, take this opportunity to express our satisfaction with, and commendation of, the program. We shall continue to give our enthusiastic support to the program, and we encourage the Faculty to take steps to maintain its excellence...
Seven Dead. To Israel's discomfort, West Bankers voted heavily for pro-P.L.O. candidates in municipal elections sponsored by Jerusalem last month. Since February, West Bank towns have been rocked almost daily by protest strikes and demonstrations. With government permission-"We must maintain law and order," Premier Yitzhak Rabin insists-troops broke up demonstrations roughly and cordoned off whole towns under curfew. Seven West Bank Arabs have been killed so far in clashes between soldiers and demonstrators...