Word: moro
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Farcical Way. The Christian Democrats' most plausible alternative was Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who had the support of Premier Emilio Colombo-a centrist Christian Democrat -some rightists and two of the strongest left-wing factions. No one doubted that Moro could have easily been elected, because he was acceptable to the 259 Communists as well as the 105 Socialists. But he was wholly unacceptable to other Christian Democratic factions, most notably the followers of Fanfani. Instead, the party settled on another former Premier: Leone. There was a measure of justice in the choice: Leone had lost...
...four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival is Francesco de Martino, Deputy Premier and the candidate of the Socialist Party...
FORCE REDUCTIONS. On a mission to Moscow, Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro formally advised the Soviet government that NATO wants to begin talks with the Warsaw Pact about force reductions in Europe. Perhaps as an indication of Soviet interest, Moro was received both by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. But then it was only logical for them to hear out the NATO emissary, since it was Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev who last May invited the Atlantic Alliance to taste the wine of Russian intentions about troop cuts...
...black shirts for his followers. More in the mold of the old image of Fascist leaders is Retired General Giovanni de Lorenzo, former Army Chief of Staff. Now one of M.S.I.'s representatives in Parliament, he was accused, but later exonerated, of plotting a coup against the Aldo Moro government in 1964. Loosely associated with the M.S.I, are squads of youthful right-wing neoFascists, many of whom do wear black shirts. The bullyboys have taken on the far-left radicals with bombs, bicycle chains and commando-type tactics...
...evidently felt compelled to take umbrage at Moro's comment in order to keep Slovenian nationalists quiet. As a result of the manufactured crisis, both governments announced that the trip had been "temporarily postponed...