Word: moro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moments before the delegates were scheduled to recess for a luncheon of poached bass at the Italian embassy, Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I have something further to say." With that, the small, sharp-featured Pipinelis, 70, announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would...
Despite these limitations, Rumor collected an impressive 25-man cabinet that includes some competent former ministers and new faces from all eight fac tions of the Christian Democrats. For mer Premier Aldo Moro (1963-68) is Foreign Minister. Emilio Colombo, one of the architects of Il Boom, Italy's continuing prosperity, remains in his old job at the Treasury. Leftist Carlo Donat-Cattin, a newcomer to the Cabinet who favors increased cooperation with the Communist Party, is Labor Minister. Rumor has the promise of the Socialists that they will help him pass several reform bills, including one to modernize...
...lawyer who had guided the minority government during the five months since the election, abruptly handed in his resignation. He figured that his fellow Christian Democrats were going to fire him, so he quit. In rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from the majority group that rules the party. The country could only wait until the Christian Democrats settled their power struggle, but in the end another center-left...
...certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu, in return for an annual honorarium of 5,000 Straits dollars (now worth $1,700). In 1963, when colonialism's day was done, the British bequeathed Sabah...
...government must be strong enough to deal with spreading student unrest and labor agitation for better working conditions. And lurking in the shadows is the Communist Party, strengthened by votes from disgruntled Socialists in the last elections and more than willing to step into the breach. Moro himself regards an alliance with the Communists as unthinkable, but more leftist Christian Democrats see it as a way out of the dilemma. Despite the Communist specter, the Socialists seem determined to hold out on the Christian Democrats, defying all of Nenni's pleas to cooperate. Explained Socialist Luigi Mariotti, Minister...