Word: motorino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, be quite the same lineup. For though his supporters predictably deny it, all Italy is sure it knows who led the snipers. It was little Amintore ("Il Motorino") Fanfani, who only a month ago resigned as Foreign Minister because of the political indiscretions of his wife (TIME...
Known as Il Motorino (Little Motor), Fanfani has, in addition to his Christian Democrats, the pledged support of three center parties, the Saragat Socialists, Liberals, and Republicans, ensuring him a majority in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies without the help of the neoFascists. But any one of the supporting parties could clog up Il Motorino's gas line should he show any of the leftist economic notions or excessive Catholic zeal that have toppled his governments in the past. A major clause in the coalition agreement negotiated by Fanfani provides that if any one of the minority...