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However, when Aldo Moro took over as Italy's Premier-designate last month, Washington realized that his fragile government is in no position to honor its commitment to shoulder MLF's cost, or even to participate. Thus the U.S., which has promised to contribute 40%, and persuaded the Germans to pledge another 40%, has finally put pressure on Britain. To Whitehall's dismay, Washington announced that its top MLF expert, Admiral Claude Ricketts, deputy chief of naval operations, would fly to London this week to discuss the government's technical reservations and satisfy British complaints that...
...nearly three years in office was scrappy little Amintore Fanfani, tagged with most of the blame for heavy Christian Democratic losses in last month's national elections. Summoned to Rome's Quirinal Palace by President Antonio Segni to get the nod as Premier was cautious, quiet Aldo Moro, secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Party...
...Moro, 46, was the party's unanimous choice for the job; for good measure, their Cabinet partners-the Social Democrats and the Republicans-also supported him. Even Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, so far excluded from the Cabinet but whose 87 votes in the Chamber of Deputies can make or break the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), did not oppose Moro. The new Premier's backing, however, was far less solid than it seemed, and so is the future of stable government in Italy...
From the other end of the political spectrum, the free-enterprising Liberals, who also made impressive election gains, were hopping mad. Liberal Leader Giovanni Malagodi bitingly labeled Moro "a taller, sadder Fanfani, but no less dangerous"; he promised to wage the "severest possible opposition" to the apertura...
...Moro believes in the opening to the left; in fact, he was one of its architects. He argues that socially. Italy needs the reforms (taxes, schools, agriculture) that the apertura contemplates. And he is convinced that politically, only the apertura can bring stable government to Italy under present conditions. He might well be wrong, as the Christian Democrats' loss and the Reds' gains at the polls suggest. But Moro is determined to keep the coalition alive. "It is," as Moro put it last week, "an anxious moment for our country...