Word: winging
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Deepening Relationship. The party's right wing, which prefers confrontation rather than compromise with the Communists, largely prevailed. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, was elected president of the party's national council, an honorary post that would give him a handy platform for the campaign. A tough scrapper, the self-styled "Tuscan Pony" likes nothing better than a tussle with the Communists, whose party organ L'Unita huffily described his resurrection as "partly pathetic and partly provocative." While Fanfani makes his pitch to voters on the right, beleaguered Premier Moro, 59, and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini...
...strength was only one of 1,000 political rallies held in a single day-no mean feat considering the country's 8.5 million population. That the campaign was under way at all was a measure of the changes wrought in the past five months. Until the abortive left-wing coup last November, Portugal frequently seemed on the verge of a Communist dictatorship. That danger has now virtually disappeared...
With balloting set for April 25, the second anniversary of the "revolution of flowers" that overturned the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano, no fewer than 14 political parties are competing for the 263 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. Apart from the radical fringe-Trotskyites and quasi anarchists on the left, monarchists on the right-it is not always easy to tell the parties apart. As one diplomat observed: "Socialism in its various forms, reverence to the Armed Forces Movement, the eradication of social injustice-those are like an American's apple...
...agreed to step down. His successor must be one on whom all factions can agree, and one, moreover, acceptable to neighboring Syria. That might boost the chances of Elias Sarkis, quiet governor of Lebanon's central bank, while dampening those of Centrist Raymond Eddé, an outspokenly antiright wing and anti-Syrian parliamentarian...
Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House...