Word: moro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly three years in office was scrappy little Amintore Fanfani, tagged with most of the blame for heavy Christian Democratic losses in last month's national elections. Summoned to Rome's Quirinal Palace by President Antonio Segni to get the nod as Premier was cautious, quiet Aldo Moro, secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Party...
...Moro, 46, was the party's unanimous choice for the job; for good measure, their Cabinet partners-the Social Democrats and the Republicans-also supported him. Even Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, so far excluded from the Cabinet but whose 87 votes in the Chamber of Deputies can make or break the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), did not oppose Moro. The new Premier's backing, however, was far less solid than it seemed, and so is the future of stable government in Italy...
From the other end of the political spectrum, the free-enterprising Liberals, who also made impressive election gains, were hopping mad. Liberal Leader Giovanni Malagodi bitingly labeled Moro "a taller, sadder Fanfani, but no less dangerous"; he promised to wage the "severest possible opposition" to the apertura...
Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...
Only a Caretaker. Moro is said to be reluctant to take on the job, and his lavish praise for Fanfani at the party's national council meeting last week suggested that he, for one, would press for little Amintore's continuance in office. In any case, he would not likely change Fanfani's policies, since he himself was one of the architects of the apertura a sinistra and forced party acceptance of the plan with a six-hour speech at last year's national congress of the Christian Democrats in Naples. But Moro is somewhat less...