Word: moro
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Died. Major General Henry Clay Hodges, 103, West Point's oldest alumnus (class of '81), who was born on the frontier, was appointed to the Military Academy by Ulysses S. Grant, campaigned against Comanches on the Pecos, Moro rebels in the Philippines, Pancho Villa in Mexico, and led his 39th Division to France in World War I, before retiring in 1920 to an old soldier's place of honor at every West Point graduation since then except two; in Stamford, Conn...
Premier-designate Aldo Moro's Christian Democrats, having learned painfully from the April results that it does not pay to peddle anti-Communism softly, waged a tough campaign against "Khrushchev's false smiles." They could also point to Sicily's significant economic progress under their administration...
...position somewhat strengthened by the Sicily results, Aldo Moro will begin trying to put together a new coalition Cabinet based on the alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Nenni Socialists. But even if he can thus continue the "opening to left," Moro's-and Italy's-troubles will only be beginning...
However, when Aldo Moro took over as Italy's Premier-designate last month, Washington realized that his fragile government is in no position to honor its commitment to shoulder MLF's cost, or even to participate. Thus the U.S., which has promised to contribute 40%, and persuaded the Germans to pledge another 40%, has finally put pressure on Britain. To Whitehall's dismay, Washington announced that its top MLF expert, Admiral Claude Ricketts, deputy chief of naval operations, would fly to London this week to discuss the government's technical reservations and satisfy British complaints that...
...Moro believes in the opening to the left; in fact, he was one of its architects. He argues that socially. Italy needs the reforms (taxes, schools, agriculture) that the apertura contemplates. And he is convinced that politically, only the apertura can bring stable government to Italy under present conditions. He might well be wrong, as the Christian Democrats' loss and the Reds' gains at the polls suggest. But Moro is determined to keep the coalition alive. "It is," as Moro put it last week, "an anxious moment for our country...