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...anyone seemed capable of resolving the crisis, it was Fanfani. Four times Prime Minister in the 1950s and early '60s, the Tuscany-born Fanfani was known both as il Padrino (the Godfather) and, because of his ability to bounce back from political adversity, the Tuscan Pony. Despite his antiCommunist, anti-abortion stands, he gained a reputation as a pragmatist, forming the country's first left-of-center coalition with the Socialists in 1962. His ability to compromise was quickly put to use last week to mollify the present-day Socialists under Bettino Craxi...
Cuban dealers favor Mercedes Benzes and bodyguards dressed in dark suits and carrying two guns (one under the coat and one strapped to the ankle). José Medrano Alvero Cruz, nicknamed El Padrino, always travels in a Rolls-Royce protected by cars full of bodyguards. Alvero, who is fond of listening to the theme song from The Godfather on his car stereo, never talks on the telephone and keeps himself insulated from any drug deal through relatives and friends. Nevertheless, he was recently convicted for tax evasion...
...Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
...time Premier, he has since 1973 been secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, which has ruled Italy for 30 years. For his pugnacious leadership and almost baronial control of the party's vast machinery and patronage, he has sometimes been called, both inside and outside the party, il Padrino-the Godfather-of Italian politics...
...rumored to be altogether too close to the gangs, is Francisco Javier Bernal López, a mustachioed attorney who used to make his living from the quickie-Mexican-divorce trade, which was stopped when the law was changed in 1970. Bernal denies that he is in fact El Padrino (the Godfather); "I don't have a gang," he told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich last week. "How am I going to order killings? My clients consult, but that is legal." His clients include the Reyes Pruneda family, whose forces are supplemented by hired gunmen. Says Bernal: "This town...