Word: moro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
...decisions," said one of his aides. "When the foreign ministers meet, they take a few. We must get together the men who really control power in their countries, the heads of government, if we are to take the difficult decisions that face us." Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms do not yet function properly. But it exists, and realizes its duty to exist, for itself and for the rest of the world. What prevails is not a blind optimism, but a confidence which is nourished...
...deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who has three times before served as Premier (1963-68), to see if he would have better luck...
Whether or not Moro succeeds, many moderate politicians are reluctantly coming to the conclusion that Italy's economic woes cannot be solved without the help of the Communists. The country's second-largest party, the Communists won 27% of the vote in the last election; through their control of the biggest unions, they are in a position to stop the enervating strikes. The Christian Democrats could seek a broadened mandate of their own in a new election, but they are afraid that the campaign would only split the country and that they might lose anyway...
...MOSLEM REBELLION: We captured the main headquarters of the Moro National Liberation Front on March 11 in Batong Puti. We captured all their documents. They were in a cave that would have held 1,000 men. Undoubtedly, some of our lower-echelon officials have irritated the Moslems by not being flexible enough. For instance, when I proclaimed that nobody could carry a gun, some of our police and constabulary disarmed the Moslems in an alienating manner in markets and other public places. But one thing I'd like to make clear. We can handle any insurgency or infiltration...