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...There are risks and the risks are great," warned left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni. We must accept "the margin of risk," declared Christian Democratic Chief Aldo Moro. The atmosphere plainly was more suspicious than auspicious for the new Italian government. After months of dickering, while the nation marked time under a caretaker Cabinet, the Christian Democrats finally were ready to conclude their marriage of convenience-or perhaps inconvenience-with Nenni's left-wing Socialists. It was the first time in 16 years that a doctrinaire Marxist party would share power in any major West European Cabinet...
...Communists love the idea. They are saying reassuringly that they would not make France pull out of the Common Market or NATO as the price of "workers' unity." That is the same sweet line the Communists are taking in Italy, where the Reds' longtime allies, the leftist Nenni Socialists, are on the verge of entering the government...
...position somewhat strengthened by the Sicily results, Aldo Moro will begin trying to put together a new coalition Cabinet based on the alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Nenni Socialists. But even if he can thus continue the "opening to left," Moro's-and Italy's-troubles will only be beginning...
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...
...Communist ranks, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. whose Reds were the biggest gainers in last month's balloting (winning 25% of the vote), warned that "the first phase of an extremely acute and bitter" political era had opened, and demanded that Reds be brought into the Cabinet. Nenni, under heavy pressure from his onetime Red allies to push the center-left coalition further left, threatened to do just that. In advance of a crucial Socialist Party congress in July, Nenni declared that he would demand "more advanced positions" as the price of his continued participation in the alliance...