Word: rome
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...campaigning for Italy's special national election on June 20 began last week, the Communists-perhaps prophetically-seemed to be first off the mark. From Rome top party officials fanned out to speak at urban rallies across the country, disciplined young Communist workers-like sports fans lined up early for scarce tickets to a soccer match-laid siege to courthouses to file for the top spot on Italy's complicated ballots, granted on a first-come first-served basis. Almost invariably, the Communists beat out representatives of the eleven other parties...
...central act in the Communist kickoff took place in the glassy modernistic Palazzo dei Congressi outside Rome. There, amid red bunting, Communist flags and green-white-and-red Italian tricolors, slender Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, 53, formally opened the campaign at a massive rally. He called for "an end to the disastrous predominance of the Christian Democrats" and urged voters to "give Italy a government that's different." Significantly, the overflow audience that roared approval of Berlinguer's words was mostly young and middle class...
...days after he kicked off the Communists'campaign in Rome, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer headed out to the provinces. Instead of a prepared speech, the rally format called for Berlinguer to answer questions from the audience-a novelty in Italian politics. Explained one of Berlinguer's aides: "We want to get out from under the whole style of emotional propaganda and ready-made phrases and instead, reason with the people." TIME'S Rome bureau chief Jordan Bonfante followed Berlinguer on his first day on the hustings. His report...
...streets of Rome, she rides in a chauffeured limousine. But on TV commercials in Japan these days, Actress Sophia Loren travels more breezily -on a Honda motorbike. "We needed a softer image to promote the idea that bikes like ours are for ladies also," says a Honda spokesman, explaining why Loren, 41, was hired as Honda's first foreign huckstress. Sophia, who spent five days putt-putting for the cameras outside her Italian villa, now joins some other well-known Westerners who advertise wares on the Japanese tube. Among them: Actors Charles Bronson (men's cosmetics), Orson Welles...
...American bishops-and perhaps much more acutely for Pope Paul-it is a dilemma: how to guide those who seem to need authority without alienating those who cherish their freedom. Catholic Americans who have met the Pope in audiences in Rome are almost invariably touched by the Pope's personal warmth, but that does not necessarily enhance his credibility. Georgetown's Sue Peot expresses the feeling of many when she says, "The Pope seems far away, and not just physically." Suggests Frank Innis Jr. of Mt. Vernon, Va.: "Pope Paul has become a titular head, like the Queen...