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...Wife Cornelia were received politely wherever they went. He had chats of roughly half an hour each with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (whom Wallace adjudged "a fine gentleman"); Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher ("a lovely talk with a lovely lady"); Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans; Italian Premier Aldo Moro and President Giovanni Leone ("I said I recognized the contribution Italy has made to society in general, especially in our country"). But Wallace could not get an audience with Pope Paul...
...error or misjudgment. He also said that he would not step down voluntarily as secretary. "My flight would only produce further damage," Fanfani said. Amid angry cries of "blackmail," he linked his own political future to that of the fragile center-left coalition government of current Premier Aldo Moro...
Other Christian Democratic leaders tried to persuade Fanfani to resign gracefully. Moro conceded that the Christian Democrats had been guilty of an "arrogance of power" for not recognizing the changing moods of youth, women and labor. He professed "solidarity" with Fanfani but firmly dissociated the fate of the party secretary from that of his own government...
...turning point for the party, which would have been discomfited whether it kept the Tuscan Pony in harness or deposed him. By ousting their controversial secretary, the Christian Democrats have made it all but impossible to risk a confrontation with the Communists in early national elections. If Moro's government is to survive, its only choice is to accept the popular shift to the left and grant more concessions to the Socialists, who also gamed in the regional elections and are now indispensable to the success of any center-left coalition that the Christian Democrats seek to form...
...that broke with the Kissinger line, Europeans now believe that the President may be capable of being his own man and of eventually putting his own imprint on U.S. policies. Italian diplomats noted that during a complicated tour d'horizon of foreign issues in Rome with Premier Aldo Moro, Ford never turned to Kissinger for consultation...