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...CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS responded by polarizing the situation. The DC, throughout the campaign, flatly rejected the possibility of any coalition which involved the PCI, and the party secretary, Zaccagnini, went so far as to state that "not to confirm the DC as the indispensable governing party would severely compromise the future of democracy in Italy." This line of attack was supported by the Vatican (over the protests of leftist Catholics, including many of the clergy) and favored by the Ford administration (though not by US Embassy Press Attache William Lenderking, transferred to Bangkok because he advocated a more flexible policy with...
Other watchers of the Italian scene helped out with the story. Reporter Walter Galling went to Bologna to cover the speeches of Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, and Reporter M.J. Wilson traveled to Naples on the heels of the Christian Democrats' ever-happy warrior, Amintore Fanfani. Stringer Maria Ondone flew to Sardinia to interview Berlinguer's relatives, friends and former teachers There she unearthed documents that included his baptismal certificate and an early appeal for free assembly that he wrote (in English) in 1944 to the Allied Military Government in Sardinia when he was secretary...
Moro was joined on the campaign trail by Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, who last week was felled by a prostate attack in Bologna. In a party that had been plagued by ineptitude and corruption, Zaccagnini, despite his age, had been billed as a fresh face and a genuine "Mr. Clean": his picture is on most D.C. campaign posters, along with the party's slogan: "The New D.C. has already begun." Speaking in Bologna last week before his attack, Mr. Clean admitted that the Communists had gone through "a significant evolution during the past ten years." But, he added...
Democrats' party secretary, Benigno Zaccagnini, warned that any Communist victory, however narrow, would set Italy on "the road of no return." He added, "If I could be sure that the Communists, having been voted into power, would then turn around and leave it after an election defeat, I would not have any problems of principle." Thus Zaccagnini underlined a worry shared by many moderate voters: the Communists, who seemed earnest and engaging enough while they were only just seeking to build strength at the polls, might shift to a hard Leninist line and, having once gained power, refuse...
Communist leaders are as aware as Zaccagnini of this voter concern, and they appear to be making allowances for it even before the campaign formally opens. The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy. The hammer and sickle symbol, however, was muted, as so far have been the campaign statements of party bosses. In a speech last week, Giorgio Napolitano, a top PCI leader, made a surprising and significant distinction between Communist goals this time round. "We say that Communist participation in national decisions...