Word: moro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Baines Johnson staking his Administration's prestige over recent performances by Carroll Baker or Kim Novak. But in the land that produced Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, the movie industry is seen in a deeper perspective. Last week the uneasy coalition government of Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro was threatened with a crisis over censorship of the cinema...
...Socialists and Liberals (conservatives), all of whom were against the bill, happened to be away from Parliament when the vote was taken-possibly at the movies. The bill now goes to the Senate, where the Christian Democrats, Monarchists and neo-Fascists have 150 out of 320 seats, and Premier Moro is in a double bind. If the bill becomes law, Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni may carry out his threat to walk out of the coalition and bring down the government. If Moro amends the amendment, back to the bill's original text, he will offend the Vatican...
Last week President Johnson played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
Pompano & Postponement. The President also presided over an elegant state dinner in Moro's honor (the fish course was listed on the menu as Pompano Moro), participated in a notably laudatory exchange of toasts. Lyndon: "I salute you as a friend and companion, as a leader in the community of Europe, as a wise and respected voice on the stage of the world." Moro: "We hope that all of your endeavors, so enlightened and outward-looking both in the domestic and foreign fields, may prove effective and fruitful...
Johnson plainly enjoyed the company of Moro and his party, which included Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani. And he probably made more of a show of it than usual because he was under criticism for having postponed the visits of Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...