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- WORLD, Page 53World NotesITALYNew Name, Same Game
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- Italian Communist Party leader Achille Occhetto barely had
- time to savor his triumph. At a party congress in Rimini, he
- won a decisive vote to give the Communists a more moderate
- identity as the Democratic Party of the Left. Then came the
- pratfall: the newly named Democrats narrowly failed to re-elect
- him as party secretary.
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- Reformers deserted Occhetto when he refused to amend the
- leftists' hard-line demand that Italy pull its small contingent
- of naval and air forces out of the gulf war. Although
- humiliated, Occhetto won his job back late last week with a
- decisive 69% of the votes. But the incident illustrated how
- difficult it is proving to remake Western Europe's largest
- Marxist party. Cracked a rival political leader: "In 1976 the
- party finally accepted NATO. Today it's against the United
- Nations."
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