Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Post recently commented about the race, "Right now, the state seems content with returning Thurmond, a 75-year-old institution who has been on the losing side of nearly every national political fight he has picked and who has flitted in and out of political parties as the mood and need suited...
Although no parliamentary seats were at stake, the elections were seen as an important index of the national mood. The results surprised even those who had expected the Christian Democrats to benefit from a wave of sympathy after Moro's murder. The party won 42.5% of the vote (up from 39% in the 1976 general election), while the Communists took only 26.5% (down from 34%). Recouping their losses of two years ago, the Socialists came in with a respectable 13.5%. The centrist Republicans and Social Democrats also gained, while the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement and the far left...
...mood at Communist headquarters was sullen and depressed, although spokesmen argued that the party traditionally does better in general elections than in local contests where Christian Democratic patronage is entrenched. Party officials admitted that, despite their forceful stand against bargaining with Moro's kidnapers, they had been tarred by the terrorists' use of the "Red label" and what they called the "illicit misrepresentation of the Communist name." Giancarlo Pajetta, a prominent Communist leader, fumed against Christian Democratic politicians in the provinces who had called the Red Brigades "the Communists' children" in campaign speeches...
Like many foreign correspondents these days, Bonfante has become all too familiar with the varieties of terrorism and what they do to people. While in the London bureau he covered Northern Ireland. He reports that the mood there, where the population is badly split, is quite different from that in Italy, where only a tiny minority of the people sympathize with the cause of the Red Brigades. Belfast is grim, day or night, but Rome - for those who are not rich or famous - is still a pleasant city by day. The tourist season is already under way. The flowers...
...Archbishop William Borders, who has suspended Carcich from priestly activities since the case first broke 2½ years ago, is now asking that Carcich and the Pallottines be granted "some of the peace which an admission of guilt and attempt to rectify wrongdoing should bring." Also in a forgiving mood Attorney General Francis Burch dropped 60 of the 61 counts against Carcich and got the court last week to sentence him to 18 months of probation, during which he will spend a year in unspecified work among Maryland prisoners without serving time himself...