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...senior Iraqi sources tell TIME that a top U.N. election official, Carina Perelli, wrote an internal report last summer concluding that elections could be pulled off in just six months. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard confirms the substance of the report, saying its conclusions on "the technical aspects" are sound. But he says the U.N.'s concerns about direct elections are based on a lack of security in Iraq, which was made tragically apparent by the attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad last August. U.S. and U.N. officials privately say, however, the real concern is that Iraq's Sunnis, already...
...Perelli shrugged. "Well, perhaps Fanfani does exaggerate a bit, and that sort of thing can be counterproductive. But the point is, who forced us to dust off Fanfani and made us go back to such conservative positions? You guys did. We wanted to avoid an early election...
Paunchy, silver-haired Antonio Perelli is a lawyer and an organizer for the Christian Democratic Party in Cosenza, a sun-drenched river town of 120,000 in the southern Italian region of Calabria. Brisk, wiry Fausto Gelsomino, a printer by trade, is an official of Cosenza's Communist Party. Friendly enemies, the two men have known each other for years, and last week they were among the 30,000 people who gathered at the Piazza Fera for a Communist campaign rally at which the featured speaker was Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Shortly afterward, Perelli and Gelsomino...
...didn't think it was so fantastic," Perelli answered dryly. "Disappointing, I'd say. How can a man of his obvious cultivation make a speech that's so obviously a campaign speech? First he screams that the Christian Democrats are nothing but a band of corrupt thieves -you heard him, didn't you?-and then he says he wants to join forces with us and form a government of unity. Even my son, who is 16 and has some leftist ideas, unfortunately, was disappointed. He thought it was all compromise and contradiction. Now he prefers...
...Perelli insisted...