Word: segni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably annoyed, Moro handed his resignation to President Antonio Segni, who accepted conditionally but asked Moro and his Cabinet to remain in office until a new government could be formed. It may take some doing, since Moro has long been under fire from right-wing members of his Christian Democratic Party, who resent the "opening to the left" through which Moro brought the Socialists into the government. Socialist Nenni has been under equally sharp fire from leftists who charge that he has given in to Moro time after time on what were fundamental Socialist demands...
Conceivably, President Segni could call for new national elections. What seems more likely, however, is that Moro's caretaker Cabinet will continue its somewhat bumbling rule until it can rearrange another center-left coalition to continue nursing the inflation-weakened Italian economy, which was recently stabilized by an infusion of $1.2 billion in foreign credits...
...turned in at 1:30 the following morning-and again got up before 7. The fatigue was noticeable in his face, but the President kept up his schedule. Chief on his list of visitors last week was Italy's slight, white-haired President Antonio Segni, 72. There were no problems of great moment to discuss; indeed, Segni addressed a joint session of Congress with the warmth and good will of an old and valued friend, and his private chats with the President were filled with assurances of mutual loyalty...
...Washington, before a joint session of Congress, Italy's President Antonio Segni ringingly rejected Gaullist notions of a European third force, argued that the Atlantic Alliance "is in fact the reality that holds us together and favors European unification...
...their attempts to bridge Europe's age-old nationalisms, Erhard, Segni and other European statesmen will crisscross the Continent in coming weeks. De Gaulle to the contrary, they are convinced that Europe's tenuous economic ties must be anchored in permanent political institutions if the Continent is not to remain forever a headless "torso...