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Premier Aldo Moro, 47, is the antithesis of the voluble, emotional Italian. A reserved onetime law professor, he detests the acid name calling of Italian politics, is so shy that he often travels by car to avoid the necessary social amenities on planes and trains. Moro's political genius is for compromise, sometimes achieved by pure tenacity. He once reduced a colleague to near collapse by arguing reasonably for four uninterrupted hours. So conscientiously capable is Moro of seeing all sides of every question that friends and foes alike are convinced that he agrees only with them...
...Moro's colorless caution was the very quality that boosted him to political prominence. Five years ago, after sharp-tongued Amintore Fanfani quit in a huff as Christian Democratic leader-in a dispute over his then still heavily opposed plans for an opening to the left-party elders looked for a replacement. He had to be a man nobody was mad at, and Moro filled the bill. Although Fanfani later became Premier for more than two years, Moro stayed on as the party's chief strategist. No less vigorous than Fanfani in his advocacy of the center-left...
Prophetically, Moro had once tried to join the Socialist Party but was turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were...
Details of the domestic program were just as fuzzy as the foreign policy agreements. Moro said he favored economic development "through planning," but insisted that private enterprise would receive the greatest possible initiative. Both sides also agreed to limited controls overspeculation in urban real estate, gradual abolition of sharecropping and raising tenant farmers' share of the profits from 53% to 58%. The agreement also included a political loyalty oath: the partners promised not to join in Parliament with either the Communists on the left or the free-enterprising Liberals, Monarchists and neo-Fascists on the right. But outside Parliament...
...center-left coalition is neither Stalinist nor a sellout. It is a muddled alliance between parties of essentially different aims, and it could break up at any time. The future, as Moro said, "is new, difficult and full of problems...