Word: segni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other time, the election of Antonio Segni as Italy's third President could evoke only enthusiasm; a dignified and selfless career has made the Christian Democrat one of Italy's most respected politicians. Many Italians, antagonized by Giovanni Gronchi's partisan use of the theoretically non-political office, look to Segni to restore dignity to the Presidency...
...election of Segni, the candidate of the right and a firm supporter of NATO, took five days, nine ballots, and a ten-minute brawl between deputies of the left and right benches of the Chamber. Curiously, though, it has not yet antagonized the coalition's left so much as rigidified opposition to the coalition on the Christian Democratic right. Incensed by the desertion of Segni in the early ballots by the party's left, the right now threatens the effective withdrawal of support from the government...
...anti-Communist Social Democrats; moderate leftist Republicans received two portfolios, including the important Ministry of the Budget, which is responsible for long-range economic planning. To balance the shift leftward in domestic affairs, Fanfani kept on notable Christian Democrats in sensitive external affairs posts-moderate Foreign Minister Antonio Segni, a strong Common Market supporter, and rightist Defense Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is pro-NATO. The Nenni Socialists got no Cabinet jobs, but agreed to vote in parliament for government proposals they approve, abstain on proposals they dislike. With Nenni Socialist backing, Fanfani's new regime could count...
Khrushchev met Fanfani and Italy's wispy Foreign Minister Antonio Segni with proper ceremony, and there were the usual three days of talks and toasts, lunches and dinners. Khrushchev, his sights set on this week's Big Four foreign ministers' meeting in Paris, mixed pointed threats with pointed jokes about Berlin. He insisted that the West must make concessions on Berlin, and renewed his expressed determination to sign a peace treaty with East Germany...
Into Rome's White House, the Quirinal palace, last week slipped a familiar visitor. Seven weeks after the downfall of Antonio Segni's center-right government and one week after the failure of Fernando Tambroni to form a rightist government nakedly dependent on Italy's neo-Fascists for a parliamentary majority, tough little Amintore Fanfani, 52, was asked to paste together another Christian-Democratic coalition...