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...consultations between the parties-including the Communists-to agree on a common economic policy. Such a plan would avoid the need for early elections and provide a convenient way to gain the support of the Communists for economic measures without actually admitting them into the governing majority-an expedient "mini-compromise," as the plan is called in Italy...
...Mini-Compromise. Moro's government has remained in power in recent weeks only with informal socialist support. After the socialists threatened to withdraw that support last week, the government was near collapse. If it falls, the probable result can be an early national election. In such a vote, the Communists, based on their strong showing in recent regional elections, might gain enough seats to demand a formal share in government-Italy's long-anticipated "historic compromise...
...that at this point they wanted such a role. Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer last week offered an alternative: a "political accord" in which the Christian Democrats would govern but socialists and Communists would participate in decisions on abortion and other major issues. The proposal sounded very much like a "mini" historic compromise. The Christian Democrats at week's end sought instead to force a better accord in parliament. The situation left Moro-and the country-with a grim political choice. Said one political observer darkly: "It's either the gun or slow poison...
...gigantic proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were?hungry reporters desperately eager for a break...
...more direct fashion, business was also fighting back at its treatment by the press. The protesters were oil companies, and the focus of their ire was a five-part look at gasoline prices broadcast last month on WNBC-TV, the network-owned station in New York City. The mini-series was aired in daily segments of about five minutes each on the early evening news broadcast. Several oil companies privately expressed displeasure at the coverage, and one, Mobil, went public with its complaints, purchasing nearly $36,000 worth of full-page advertisements in local newspapers to denounce the series...