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...shocked almost everybody. After winning a seat on the' city council, he pushed tax reform, tried to have Milan's trolley fares doubled to cover deficits. A Christian Democrat who says, "I am a leftist because I am modern," he spurred Milan's own apertura a sinistra by persuading the party to form a coalition with the socialists...
...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...
...party's 4% drop in votes is Premier Amintore Fanfani. Hardfisted Deputy Mario Scelba declared Red success "is the 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...
...party's national council meeting last week suggested that he, for one, would press for little Amintore's continuance in office. In any case, he would not likely change Fanfani's policies, since he himself was one of the architects of the apertura a sinistra and forced party acceptance of the plan with a six-hour speech at last year's national congress of the Christian Democrats in Naples. But Moro is somewhat less enthusiastic than Fanfani about economic planning, and could be expected to be more outspoken about the need to check the Communists. Moreover...
Fifteen months ago, when Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani marched his moderate Christian Democratic Party through the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) into a parliamentary partnership with the left-wing Socialists, he acknowledged the deal as a dangerous gamble. "We shall certainly have some sleepless nights," he said. By now, Fanfani must be a hopeless insomniac...