Word: moro
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...cartoon in Bologna's daily Resto del Carlino recently portrayed Christian Democrat Premier Aldo Moro and Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer as a cozy couple on the dance floor, while Socialist Party Chief Francesco de Martino stood alone growling "Hey, I thought this was supposed to be my dance." Italian politics being what it is, the caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar...
...support for the government, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously printed the embarrassing story that the CIA had been authorized to give $6 million in secret aid to non-Communist Italian parties-most of it, apparently, to the ruling Christian Democrats. Then, the day after Premier Moro rode to the Palazzo del Quirinale to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, millions of workers walked off the job in a general strike that shut down airports, closed most government offices and schools and slowed down sectors of industry. The workers were striking in sympathy with...
...Cold. The Socialists had acted to protest their increasingly powerless role in the 13-month-old Moro coalition. Always reluctant to lose protest votes by joining directly in the government, the Socialists, who have 61 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, had not accepted any Cabinet posts. All the portfolios were held by Moro's fellow Christian Democrats (267 seats) and the small right-of-center Republican Party...
...with Communists, to such an extent that the Socialists felt left out in the cold. The most provocative issue was Christian Democratic consultation with the Communists about a $33 billion economic redevelopment program. Though the Socialists were officially allied with the government, De Martino complained in a letter to Moro that "I have to read about [the program] in the paper." Worse yet, the plan would have left the administration of Italy's biggest venture yet in economic planning to a ministerial committee on which the Socialists were not to be represented. The Socialists, in effect, complained that...
Public Embrace. After De Martino announced that his party could no longer support Moro's coalition, the Socialists formally demanded the creation of a "government of national emergency" with powers to change economic policy and solve Italy's urgent problems. More significantly, the Socialists asked that the Communists openly support any new government "in the light...