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WHEN Italian Portraitist Pietro Annigoni met Germany's new Chancellor, Dr. Erhard said: "I have seen some of your paintings of the British royal family. And I remember the one you did of President Kennedy. Tell me, how many sittings did they give...
...geopolitical realities. When he was editing Pacem in Terris and came to a sentence that noted how both sides in the cold war had entered the nuclear arms race for defensive purposes, John added: "And there is no reason to disbelieve them." Did he mean that? "No," answers Monsignor Pietro Pavan, the Vatican scholar who drafted the encyclical. "This was a strategic statement of the Holy Father. He said, 'Who really knows? And anyway, I cannot posit bad faith on the part of either party. If I did, the dialogue would be over and the doors would be closed...
Mazzoni, who quickly gave his patient still another transfusion and called in for consultation Roman Surgeon Pietro Valdoni and the Pope's old friend and personal physician, Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini of Bologna. When on Tuesday of last week the bleeding increased, the quaintly formal Vatican press releases, full of references to "the august patient," for the first time admitted the gravity of the situation...
Moro, 46, was the party's unanimous choice for the job; for good measure, their Cabinet partners-the Social Democrats and the Republicans-also supported him. Even Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, so far excluded from the Cabinet but whose 87 votes in the Chamber of Deputies can make or break the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), did not oppose Moro. The new Premier's backing, however, was far less solid than it seemed, and so is the future of stable government in Italy...
...fruit of our mistakes and not of the superiority of Communist ideals." Scelba and others of the center and right strongly oppose a continuance of the apertura a sinistra, the so-called opening to the left, initiated last year by Fanfani when he formed his alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Trouble is, no other alliance seems feasible. For the Christian Democrats, a coalition with the right-wing Monarchists and neo-Fascists is unthinkable. "Given the parliamentary situation and the prevalent trends among the party," lamented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "no solution is possible other than...