Word: gasperoni
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...soothingly: "We don't want to persecute anyone, certainly not dear Mother Veronica." At week's end, the closing order remained in effect, but parents were still entrusting their daughters to Mother Veronica's medieval-minded ways. Explained the wife of Communist Party Secretary General Gildo Gasperoni: "Her school is better than the others...
...first, the republic's Communist boss, lean, saturnine ex-Partisan Gildo Gasperoni, publicly decried the suggestion that San Marino become another Monte Carlo to lure money from free-spending capitalists. "This means the end of a tradition," he said with hands raised before his eyes. But in the end, Gasperoni and his Communists pushed the plan through...
Anti-Communists hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
...final tally this week showed 2,755 votes for the Marxists, 2,020 for the Popular Alliance. Communist Gasperoni could count for four more years on 33 of the republic's 60 representatives. From the Palazzo del Governo, in which stands the statue of San Marino's foremost honorary citizen, Abraham Lincoln, the blue and white flag of Sammarinese liberty fluttered-and beside it, the Red Flag with hammer & sickle...
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