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...prison, another time to bless a crowd gathered in the village of Acilia. At the windswept airport the Pope shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist Pietro Nenni, Italy's Vice Premier, conspicuously refused to cross himself) before taking his seat in the Vatican-chartered Alitalia...
When Italy's Pietro Nenni was asked last year what price he demanded in return for supporting a center-left coalition government, the old Socialist leader growled: "The head of Giorgio Valerio." The head belongs to the aristocratic managing director of Societa Edison, then Italy's largest public utility holding company. Nenni got his price-the country's power industry was nationalized-but Giorgio Valerio kept his head, and is busy proving that he knows very well...
...Going Ahead." Biggest obstacle had been the divisions inside Nenni's own party, whose warring factions range from halfhearted supporters of the Atlantic Alliance to faithful followers of the Communist Party. At the last minute, the pro-Reds threatened to rebel against the proposed coalition with the "capitalists," but Nenni declared flatly: "The door is open. You can go through it with me or not. I'm going ahead." His central committee backed him up by a 59-to-40 vote...
Spurred on by the Kennedy assassination-both Nenni and Moro feared that President Johnson might not be as sympathetic to the "opening to the left" -the negotiators then hammered out an 8,000-word program of cooperation that was just vague enough so that either party, or any faction, could interpret it as desired. On foreign policy, the Socialists balked at pledging "fidelity" to NATO but settled for "loyalty" to the Atlantic Alliance and agreement to continue discussions with the U.S. over Italian participation in MLF, the proposed fleet of Polaris-equipped surface ships. In return for accepting anti-Communist...
...deal was promptly and bitterly attacked by foes from all sides. Nenni's pro-Communist wing continued to denounce it as a sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...