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...Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes and the movie In the Heat of the Night. DIED. ALESSANDRO NATTA,83, Italian Communist Party leader for nearly 40 years; in Imperia. A longtime ally of historic party leader Palmiro Togliatti, Natta unsuccessfully opposed changing the party's name when the Soviet Union collapsed. RESIGNED. DOUGLAS ("PETE") PETERSON, 65, United States ambassador to Vietnam, fueling speculation that he plans to run for Florida Governor against Jeb Bush; in Hanoi. Peterson engineered a U.S.- Vietnam trade deal, which is awaiting the Bush...
Later, there was a similar situation in Italy. Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, was ready to start an armed insurrection. Stalin restrained Togliatti. He warned that an insurrection would be crushed by the American forces there...
DIED. Pietro Nenni, 88, Italian Socialist who, with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance...
P.C.I, deputy and longtime companion of legendary Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti; she thus became the first woman president of a parliamentary assembly in Italy's history. By giving up his lofty parliamentary post, Ingrao would be better able to descend into the arena of party politics and head an anti-Berlinguer faction. Considered one of the party's deepest thinkers, Ingrao is at the center of a "cerebral" faction that advocates a thorough overhaul of Communist strategy based on a careful re-examination of the party's strengths and objectives. Ingrao and his followers seek to reunify...
...headquarters of the Italian Communist Party are in a building on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There, in a book-lined office dominated by a portrait of the late Palmiro Togliatti, TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante recently met with Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...