Word: malagodi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such matters as roadbuilding, vocational education, control of local police. Four such regions* were formed years ago, but since then the scheme was shelved by the Christian Democrats, who feared that Communists, alone or allied with the Nenni Socialists, would build up powerful grass-roots political machines. Giovanni Malagodi, leader of the free-enterprising Liberals, who were dropped from Fanfani's coalition, warned that the rearrangement would make possible "a federation of little Red republics" in such Communist strongholds as Umbria, Tuscany and Emilia...