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...tense and packed Chamber of Deputies. Despite Moro's letter of the week before, suggesting authorities bargain with the terrorists of the Red Brigades for his release, the government would reject any attempt at extortion by the kidnapers, said Andreotti, and stood firmly against negotiations. Suddenly Benigno Zaccagnini, secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats, was handed a sealed message. Zaccagnini hurried out of the chamber. A few moments later Ugo La Malfa, leader of the centrist Republicans, told the astonished deputies that the message was a new letter from Moro...
...resignation to President Giovanni Leone. The President immediately began the time-honored ritual of inviting officials of all parties to the Quirinale for talks. Among them: Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, Socialist Party Leader Bettino Craxi, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. Chieftain Giorgio Almirante, and two Christian Democratic veterans, Benigno Zaccagnini and Amintore Fanfani. After all that, Leone asked Andreotti to try to form a new government...
Stymied, Andreotti and Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini decided to acknowledge shifts of power in Parliament, where Communist strength after the election nearly equalled the Christian Democrats'. Veteran Communist Deputy Pietro Ingrao, 61, in an agreement between parties, was named president of the Chamber of Deputies. And last week the Communists for the first time were awarded seven of 26 parliamentary committee chairmanships, including key posts in economic and fiscal areas. In return, the Communists were expected to allow Andreotti to install his government by abstaining rather than voting against him when he submitted his monocolore Cabinet...
...Communists have already indicated that they will seek legislation to crack down on tax evaders. They also want better pay for police, more schools and hospitals and a cutback on the sottogoverno, the maze of inefficient governmental agencies. Andreotti can accept most of the Communist proposals, although Zaccagnini warned Christian Democratic leaders last week "to avoid the danger that the parliamentary vote will constitute in fact that majority which we excluded on a political plane." Bluntly, that meant they had to watch against the Communists grabbing command of the lawmaking process and slipping into the government via the parliamentary back...
Some 37 million Italian voters went to the polls. The Christian Democrats, under their reform-minded Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, had played down responsibility for a sick economy with 20% inflation, 7% unemployment and a $20 billion deficit. Zaccagnini spoke instead of a "policy of renewal" within the party; Christian Democrats everywhere had played on fears that Italy-and the Western Alliance-would be changed irrevocably if Communists were allowed a share in government...