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Outside party headquarters, a crowd of youthful supporters cheered wildly when Secretary-General Enrico Berlinguer, 53, the spare, introspective Sardinian who masterminded the unexpected showing, appeared on a floodlit balcony. Later, looking across a sea of red flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
...manner yet still manages to exude a certain magnetism. He is an anomaly in other ways. Though he leads the largest proletarian party in the West, his fragile hands have rarely been callused by any implement rougher than a sailboat's tiller. The descendant of an aristocratic, landowning Sardinian family, he is married to a practicing Roman Catholic but is an atheist himself...
Since he became secretary of the party in 1972, Berlinguer-the Sardinian scion of landowning aristocrats -has worked hard to promote a new respectable image for the Communists...
Despite the agreement, and probable parliamentary approval of it this week, Italy's troubles were far from over. For one thing, Christian Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...
...their Sardinian suits, the companies assert that, acting over their protests, the crude was twice loaded from Amoseas storage tanks in Ras Lanuf terminal aboard a ship that was to deliver it to the Saras refinery near Cagliari, Sardinia. The oil firms are suing Saras for return of the crude or payment of an estimated $2,000,000 cash for the cargo, on the ground that the oil still legally belongs to Amoseas...