Word: occhetto
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...changing so we can change Italy," said party secretary Achille Occhetto. He might have said his party, Italy's second biggest and the West's largest Communist Party (1.4 million members), was changing to catch up with voters, whose support has dropped from a high of 34% in 1976 to 28% in the 1989 elections for the European Parliament. Occhetto must still win approval for his proposal at a congress in January, overcoming resistance from an Old Guard that remains proud to be red. A week earlier, Occhetto's rival on the left, Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, upstaged the divided...
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