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...Deputies say that they are prepared to vote on major issues with the minority Christian Democratic administration. Then, if the Christian Democrats come through with more social and economic reforms, the Socialists promise they will consider returning to the fold at their party congress next October. Center Left Leader Aldo Moro thus far has refused to govern with a Socialist pistol at his head, so last week President Guiseppe Saragat began seeking a more willing candidate-or a better solution to the deadlock...
Those voters who did mark their ballots returned to power Premier Aldo Moro's five-year-old Center-Left coalition with an increased majority of 51 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies. The Christian Democrats gained six new seats from extreme right-wing parties, and the Republicans, the smallest partner in the ruling coalition, went from five seats to nine...
...present, Premier Aldo Moro's Center-Left coalition remains the only viable form of government in Italy, and Nenni's Socialists have gone too far in their partnership with Moro to reverse direction now. But the coalition's survival depends largely on a program reformist enough to restore confidence in the Socialists without undermining the Christian Democrats' and Republicans' new-found support from the right. A neat trick, if it can be done...
...Christian Democrats, led by Premier Aldo Moro, have played a major role in all of Italy's postwar governments; they received 38% of the vote in the 1963 elections. The Communists, headed by Secretary-General Luigi Longo, won 25% of the vote in the last elections but have regularly been excluded from a share in the government coalition, in which the Christian Democrats have recently been partners with the Democratic Socialists, the Socialists and the Republicans. This time, the Communists have decided to take a new campaign tack: instead of asking for votes only for themselves, they are working...
...time by turning out short wry works with such titles as Veritable Flabby Preludes (for a Dog), Disagreeable Sketches, and Chapters Turned Every Which Way. His 50-year-old tidbits still sound fresh and impudent, and are enjoying something of a vogue, due partly to their crisp presentation by Aldo Ciccolini...