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Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.
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politics · Prime Minister of Italy (1963–1968; 1974–1976) · politician · diplomat · professor · also Aldo Moro, Moro
Born 23 September 1916 · Died 9 May 1978 · Q171834
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2026· 3 entries
Mshale: Žalgiris Vilnius – Hajduk Split: The Atmosphere Aldo Moro (8qNosDOcXW)
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MindaNews: 50 years after the 1976 Moro Gulf tsunami, are coastal residents and LGUs tsunami-ready?
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2021· 1 entry
Italian media reported that the Italian authorities had received detailed warnings of a planned attack on the Great Synagogue of Rome before the terrorist attack of 9 October 1982
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2006· 1 entry
Steve Pieczenik was interviewed by Emmanuel Amara in his documentary film Les derniers jours d'Aldo Moro ("The Last Days of Aldo Moro")
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2005· 1 entry
Sergio Flamigni, a leftist politician and writer who had served on a parliamentary inquiry on the Moro case, suggested the involvement of the Operation Gladio network directed by NATO
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2004· 1 entry
Moro should have been on board
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1993· 1 entry
Historian Giuseppe Tamburrano expressed doubts about what was said by the Mafia pentiti in relation to the Moro affair because, comparing the two memorials (the amputee of 1978 and the complete of 1990), he said that Mor
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1978· 4 entries
Died 1978-05-09.
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“When one speaks the truth, one must not regret having spoken it: the truth is always enlightening.”
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“(Writing to Benigno Zaccagnini) Due to an obvious incompatibility, I ask that neither State authorities nor party officials attend my funeral. I ask to be followed by the few who truly loved me and are therefore worthy of accompanying me with their prayers and their love.”
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“To get things done, one needs all the time that is required.”
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1977· 1 entry
Moro was personally involved in international disputes
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1976· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1976–1978).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1976–1976).
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The PSI secretary Francesco De Martino withdrew the external support to the government and Moro was forced to resign
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1974· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1974–1976).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1974–1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1974).
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1972· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1972–1976).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1972–1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Campaign: 1971 presidential election.
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1970· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown (1970).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1970).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1972).
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969–1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1968–1972).
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1967· 1 entry
Through the investigative reporting of L'Espresso
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1966· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1966–1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1965–1966).
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1964· 2 entries
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1964–1965).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1964–1966).
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1963· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1963–1968).
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Moro was transferred to La Sapienza University of Rome as a professor of the institutions of law and criminal procedure
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1963–1964).
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1960· 1 entry
Supported by the decisive votes of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), the renovated alliance between Moro as secretary and Fanfani as prime minister led the subsequent National Congress, held in Naples in 196
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1958· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1958–1963).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Education (1958–1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Education (1957–1958).
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1956· 1 entry
Was among the most popular candidates, receiving the most votes during the party's congress
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1955· 1 entry
Was appointed as Italian Minister of Grace and Justice in the first Segni government led by Segni as Prime Minister of Italy
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1952· 1 entry
Moro founded, along with Antonio Segni, Emilio Colombo, and Mariano Rumor, the Democratic Initiative faction, which was led by his old friend Fanfani
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1946· 1 entry
Moro ran for the Bari–Foggia constituency, where he received nearly 28,000 votes
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1945· 2 entries
Married Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915–2010), with whom he had four children: Maria Fida (born 1946), Anna (born 1949), Agnese (born 1952), and Giovanni (born 1958)
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Became director of the magazine Studium and president of the Graduated Movement of Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica, AC), a widespread Catholic lay association
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1943· 1 entry
Along with other Catholic students, he founded the periodical La Rassegna, which was published until 1945
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1939· 2 entries
Studied at University of Bari (1939).
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Under the approval of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, whom he had befriended, Moro was chosen as president of the association
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1935· 1 entry
Moro joined the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students (FUCI) of Bari
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-09-23.
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