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...best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...Italian Premier Moro and British Prime Minister Callaghan listened attentively-but both face such sensitive political pressures at home they are not free to put the Puerto Rican summit advice into practice. Any Christian Democrat who forms a post-election Italian government will have to gain the support of the Communists for an effective economic stabilization plan. The result might be unacceptable to Western financial experts, and their refusal could push Italy farther down the path toward financial ruin-and hasten the time when the Italian Communists do come to power...
Responsible political organizations all quickly deplored Coco's murder, but they also projected it into the increasingly hectic election campaign. Premier Aldo Moro, stumping for the Christian Democrats, deplored "a grave disturbance at a delicate electoral moment." The Communists, by means of a statement in the party newspaper L'Unità, protested that such "ferocious criminality" was meant to prevent Italians from making "new choices to bring Italy out of its crisis and disorder." Added the statement: "In the face of this worrying reality, the action of the government appears inadequate and weak." Political observers thought the mysterious...
Both Pope Paul and the D.C. recognize that in an increasingly secularized and anticlerical Italy-where divorce and abortion have been burning issues-too much Vatican interference could backfire. Moro himself has made no mention of the papal support, preferring to deliver his own moral appeals: "What divides us from the Communists? You know. It is our conception of man and our Christian belief, which is an important part of our heritage...
...what do you expect? We've got to defend ourselves. Suppose you are crossing the street and you get jumped. You're going to fall back on whoever's going to help you, aren't you? That's why Fanfani and Moro had to put on their armor. Of course, you fellows also have to defend yourselves, don't you? What about the Gruppuscoli [fringe groups] of the Proletarian Democrats? Aren't they stealing some of your votes on the left...