ITALY VICTORY, OF SORTS, IN SICILY " ATTILA IS AT THE GATES, 
/ THUNDERED ERNESTO CARDINAL RUFFINI, ARCHBISHOP OF PALERMO . WELL, NOT 
EXACTLY . SICILY WAS HOLDING REGIONAL ELECTIONS, AND THE COMMUNISTS THREATENED 
TO REPEAT THE MASSIVE GAINS THEY HAD SCORED IN ITALY'S NATIONAL 
ELECTIONS SEVEN WEEKS AGO . RED BOSS PALMIRO TOGLIATTI HIMSELF WAS 
ON HAND TO CAMPAIGN . BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE ISLAND 
SCURRIED HUNDREDS OF COMMUNIST SQUADRISTI (SHOCK TROOPS), TRYING TO SWING UNDECIDED 
VOTERS . PREMIER-DESIGNATE ALDO MORO'S CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS, HAVING LEARNED PAINFULLY FROM 
THE APRIL RESULTS THAT IT DOES NOT PAY TO PEDDLE ANTI-COMMUNISM 
SOFTLY, WAGED A TOUGH CAMPAIGN AGAINST " KHRUSHCHEV'S FALSE SMILES . 
" THEY COULD ALSO POINT TO SICILY'S SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC PROGRESS UNDER 
THEIR ADMINISTRATION . THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS' CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDED . THE REDS, 
WHILE KEEPING THEIR PLACE AS THE SECOND LARGEST PARTY IN SICILY 
(AND THE NATION), PICKED UP ONLY ONE NEW SEAT IN THE 
90-MEMBER REGIONAL ASSEMBLY, FOR A TOTAL OF 22 . THEIR SHARE 
OF THE BALLOTS INCHED UP TO 24.8 PER CENT , 1 
PER CENT HIGHER THAN THEIR LOCAL SHARE IN APRIL . THE 
FREE-ENTERPRISING LIBERALS MATCHED THEIR EARLIER SUCCESS, MORE THAN DOUBLED THEIR REPRESENTATION 
(FROM TWO SEATS TO FIVE) . THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS GAINED THREE 
ASSEMBLY SEATS FOR A NEW TOTAL OF 37, WON ALMOST 980,000 
OF THE 2,300,000 BALLOTS CAST, EMERGED WITH 42 PER CENT OF 
THE VOTE, A RISE OF MORE THAN 3 PER CENT SINCE 
APRIL AND MORE THAN THEY HAD EVER POLLED IN SICILY . 
WROTE ONE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PAPER JUBILANTLY : " WE HAVE BROKEN 
THE 40 PER CENT BARRIER . " HIS POSITION SOMEWHAT STRENGTHENED 
BY THE SICILY RESULTS, MORO WILL NOW TRY TO PUT TOGETHER 
A NEW COALITION CABINET BASED ON THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN 
DEMOCRATS AND THE NENNI SOCIALISTS . BUT EVEN IF HE CAN 
THUS CONTINUE THE " OPENING TO LEFT, " MORO'S AND ITALY'S 
TROUBLES WILL ONLY BE BEGINNING . 