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There is no excuse for the kind of flippant analysis which accompanied the announcement in What Is To Be Done? of the April 11 speech by Giorgio Napolitano. The gratuitous remark that from some points of view, the terrorists of the Brigate Rosse (Moro's kidnappers) are characterized as freedom fighters ignores the unanimous condemnation of such acts by the Italian democratic left. The implication that the Italian Communist Party may actually be sympathetic to such acts of violence is not only uninformed but offensive; that the Communists welcome violence as an occasion for insincere disclaimers to assuage the fears...
...pursuit of its short-term objectives of shoring up the Italian economy, the PCI has joined the official parliamentary majority of democratic parties, Napolitano said. "We cannot afford the luxury of being in the opposition." he said...
Substantial political change is still needed in Italy, however. Napolitano said. The Christian Democratic Party, which has been the dominant force in government since 1947, has been largely responsible for current conditions of corruption and mismanagement, he said...
Peter Lange, assistant professor of Government, said he was "delighted" that Napolitano had finally come to Harvard. "We first invited him three years ago, but the State Department made it almost impossible for him to get a visa." he said...
...Napolitano is an "authoritative representative of the PCI." Lange said. He joined the PCI in 1945, has been in parliament since 1953 and served on the party directorate since 1963. Lange added...