Word: segni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italy was in the midst of a government crisis again, created by the downfall of wispy, white-haired Premier Antonio Segni. But what seemed only an annual event (Premiers have averaged ten months in office since Italy's late great Alcide de Gasperi was defeated in 1953) became something more last week. Courteous, conservative Cesare Merzagora, 61, longtime president of Italy's Senate, dramatically posed a fundamental question: How healthy is Italy's 15-year-old postwar democracy...
Merzagora's political patience was exhausted by the extralegal manner in which Segni's minority Christian Democratic government tiptoed out of office. Fortnight ago, outraged by President Giovanni Gronchi's humiliating visit to Moscow (TIME, Feb. 22) and convinced that the Christian Democrats were slipping toward an "unclear and unclean agreement" with Italy's big, Red-tainted Socialist Party, Italy's free-enterprising Liberals announced that their 18 Deputies would no longer support Segni. Since this meant that his government could survive only by accepting Fascist support, Segni resigned without even asking for a vote...
...Party complained that the corruption charge might even be "twisted" to apply to Christian Democrats, Merzagora resigned as Senate president. After that, President Gronchi and the party bosses settled down to the agreeable political dickering that, in time, will presumably produce another carefully weighted, immobilized compromise government very like Segni...
...raggle-taggle assemblage of Communists, Socialists, ex-Christian Democrats and assorted strays, Milazzo spent most of his time trying to defend his two-vote majority in Sicily's regional Assembly. He was under constant fire from both the Vatican and the Christian Democratic national government of Premier Antonio Segni. To keep his Communist support, Milazzo slipped Reds into government jobs all over Sicily. Fortnight ago, dismayed by the turn of events, four of Milazzo's supporters deserted, thereby wiping out his Assembly majority...