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...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 met at the intersection of Corso Mazzini and Via Manzoni. There they discussed the rally in a dialogue recorded by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante...
After a late lunch, talks with local party officials and a brief rest, Berlinguer went over to the late-afternoon rally in the Piazza Risorgimento in the center of town. A mostly partisan crowd of about 7,000 had already assembled in neat rows of wooden chairs, and burly young workers-like those who protect all Communist demonstrations against possible trouble-patrolled the grounds. As Berlinguer mounted the raised blue rostrum in front of the large neo-Romanesque cathedral, the crowd greeted him with a standing ovation...
...efforts at getting anorexics to eat and gain weight are often frustrated by the patients' own drives to lose weight. Piazza says that anorexics describe "something bad inside them that has power over them--this is what they're fighting. The fight within them is between the part that wants to eat and the part that doesn't. The body is a battleground...
...Children's Hospital, Masland and Piazza have found that their patients come from close-knit, economically comfortable homes and that they suffer from a "fear of growing up." Piazza says the families are usually "so close-knit that the child hasn't really been able to express herself, to feel autonomous. There is a desire to stay small, to be cared for by this close-knit family." Parents feel guilty because their child will not eat, and meals become battles. Therefore the therapy at Children's focuses on the entire family...
...Rome's worst week of political agitation in a year. Bands of leftist youths went on a two-hour rampage to protest the death of a radical youth during an earlier demonstration. Striking metalworkers, demanding higher pay, locked arms in Rome's Piazza Navona and with rhythmic solidarity chanted, "Governo Moro, te ne devi andá-da" ("Governo Moro, you've got to go-go"). Premier Aldo Moro's shaky Christian Democratic minority government was then more directly threatened by the 20,000 Italian feminists who poured through Rome demanding that the country's tough...