Word: movimento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angola have never been secret: he wanted to acquire the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda--which is separated from Angola by the Congo River--along with whatever else he could grab. When the Portuguese agreed to leave Angola, Zairean and South African troops joined local groups to fight the Movimento Popular de Liberacion d'Angola (MPLA), which had established itself as the best-organized and most popular nationalist movement. In this "Second War of Independence," (the first was against Portugal), Zairean troops invaded Angola in support of the FNLA, headed by Mobutu's brother-in-law Holden Roberto--obviously Mobutu...
...solve other economic troubles was sharpened by a growing despair over an epidemic of violence. Then came a sudden eruption of new bloodshed. The troubles began over the long Epiphany weekend, when a team of six extremists, presumedly leftwing, pounced on a neighborhood headquarters of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.) on Rome's outskirts and assassinated two young people. In rioting that followed, another young M.S.I, member was killed in a clash with carabinieri...
Still, the prospects were never better for the so-called "historic compromise," a power-sharing between Communists, Catholics and Socialists that Party Secretary Berlinguer proposed in 1973. Although nine parties in all are fighting for parliamentary seats-they range from the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano on the far right to the new and strident Proletarian Democrats on the extreme left-the five-week election campaign at its midpoint has narrowed down to a two-party race...
...huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom of a radical poet...
...popularity. As he left the palace after his inauguration, 15,000 citizens cheered him, and his Mercedes was showered with white carnations. The frosty general broke into a rare smile and returned his supporters' V-for-victory sign. Even an obscure left-wing splinter group called Movimento Anarquista dos Homosexuais Revolucionários pledged its unswerving loyalty to the new regime. Another band of anarchists marched into a government office demanding recognition as a "democratic opposition." When an official patiently explained that the government itself was now democratic, the firebrands shouted "Viva Spinola!" and withdrew to "reorganize...