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...cartoon in Bologna's daily Resto del Carlino recently portrayed Christian Democrat Premier Aldo Moro and Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer as a cozy couple on the dance floor, while Socialist Party Chief Francesco de Martino stood alone growling "Hey, I thought this was supposed to be my dance." Italian politics being what it is, the caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar...
Even apart from the collapse of the government, it was a week of shocks for Italians. On the day that Socialist Leader De Martino announced his party's decision to withdraw support for the government, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously printed the embarrassing story that the CIA had been authorized to give $6 million in secret aid to non-Communist Italian parties-most of it, apparently, to the ruling Christian Democrats. Then, the day after Premier Moro rode to the Palazzo del Quirinale to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, millions of workers walked...
...coalition depended on Socialist votes in Parliament to give it a majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...
...Socialist unease grew after last June's regional elections, when Communists took a startling 33% of the vote. Anxious Christian Democrats began a series of behind-the-scenes accommodations with Communists, to such an extent that the Socialists felt left out in the cold. The most provocative issue was Christian Democratic consultation with the Communists about a $33 billion economic redevelopment program. Though the Socialists were officially allied with the government, De Martino complained in a letter to Moro that "I have to read about [the program] in the paper." Worse yet, the plan would have left the administration...
...holiday spirit apparently did not impress Burma's President Ne Win, 64. Disturbed by noise from the Inya Lake Hotel across from his home in Rangoon, the socialist leader rounded up a trio of military aides armed with submachine guns and barged in on 800 revelers. While stunned guests watched, he then bashed in the band's drums, pushed over some amplifiers and slapped an army officer. Diplomats who were there reported that the Burmese partygoers, who obviously knew a Ne Win situation when they saw it, quickly made for the exits...