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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7 1989 21 SOCIAL NEWS Picture: ASSOCIATED PRESS COURT AND SOCIAL OBITUARIES Vladimir Horowitz Court BUCKINGHAM PALACE November 6th The Duke of York this morning launched the Royal British Annual Poppy Appeal at the Royal Hospital Chelsea London His Royal Highness was received on arrival by the Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (General Sir Roland Guy) and the President of the Royal British Legion (General Sir Edward Burgess) Lt-Col Sean and Mr Robin Janvrin were in attendance YORK HOUSE November 6th The Duke and Duchess of Kent this evening attended a Dinner to mark the 80th Birthday of Mr Fred Perry in the BBC Council Chamber Broadcasting House London Wl Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Mr Andrew Palmer and Mrs Alan Henderson Hotel Intercontinental on Nov 14 The Princess of Wales will attend a gala dinner aid of Aids Crisis Trust at Cliveden Taplow Berkshire on Nov 22 A memorial service for Sir Brynmor Jones will be held today in the Middleton Hall University of Hull at 115pm BIRTHDAYS Miss Ruth Pitter poetess is 92 today Baroness White former Labour Government Minister is 80 the Maharaja of Travancore 77 Lord Greenhill of Harrow Head of the Diplomatic Service 1969-73 76 Mrs Helen Suzman South African politician 72 Dr WF (Billy) Graham evangelist 71 Mr Wolf Mankowitz author and playwright 65 Dame Joan Sutherland soprano 63 Adml Sir Nicholas Hunt C-in-C Fleet 1985-87 59 Dame Gwyneth Jones soprano 53 Mr Ian Balding racehorse trainer 51 Sir John Egan Chairman and Chief Executive Jaguar 50 Miss Joni Mitchell singer 46 Mrs Lucinda Green champion three-day eventer 36 and Mr John Barnes England footballer 26 Today is the anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 Pictures of Hitler (signed) and Eva Braun who became his wife a jewel case his glasses and car club cards: part of a collection to be sold in Munich on Saturday seclusion in France and Switzerland but in 1940 settled in the United States becoming an American citizen in 1944 In February 1953 he marked the 25th anniversary of his New York debut with a Carnegie Hall recital But a few months later he again withdrew from the concert platform for 12 years A cruel fight with pre-concert nerves resulting from his fear that he would not live up to the high expectations led to psychosomatic disorders He would play only for recordings made in his home where he could remake passages with which he was dissatisfied Horowitz resumed public recitals on May 9 1965 at Carnegie Hall but another hiatus occurred from 1969 to 1978 with a brief emergence in 1974 In 1972 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society On Jan 8 1978 he played third concerto with Ormandy and the New York Philharmonic and on Feb 26 gave a White House recital for President Carter His Chopin recital in New York a little later showed that he had lost none of his fiery power and wheedling delicacy On May 22 1982 he played at the Royal Festival Hall his first appearance in Europe for 31 years This was at the behest of the Prince of Wales who sought his aid for the Royal Opera House development appeal In 1983 he visited Japan giving recitals in several cities and in April 1986 he returned to his native country having previously vowed he would never play there again Horowitz stayed at the American house in Moscow and fresh supplies of sole were flown in from Paris and Helsinki because he said it kept up his strength He also shipped in his own Steinway and tuner His recital at the Moscow Conservatory was seen worldwide on television and was an occasion that lived up to all the The great pianist was clearly delighted to be home and renewed his acquaintance with daughter whom he had known as a student On June 1 he gave a London recital in the Festival Hall againnslaving the audience with a display of pianism and showmanship that seemed to belong to a bygone era Horowitz composed a paraphrase on themes from Carmen and made his own arrangement of Pictures from an Exhibition One of his most popular encores the equivalent of a Beecham was his transcription of march Stars and Stripes Forever an astounding display of keyboard pyrotechnics He was a widely read cultivated man and had a fine collection of paintings One of his complaints about the younger generation of pianists was that they did not listen to enough music: can you play a Brahms Intermezzo if you know the symphonies songs and chamber Horowitz who is survived by his widow and their daughter Sonia can be summed up by two cliche adjectives which happen to be true: legendary and fabulous He was once described by Neville Cardus as greatest pianist alive or Later Cardus said this was an understatement: was perhaps not positive enough about the pianists still One did not go to Horowitz for philosophical or intellectual stimulus as one did to Schnabel One went to him for delight sensibility fantasy and iridescence Fortunately there is a large recorded legacy from which those pianists as yet unborn can learn where they fall short of his lives of MARRIAGES Mf King and Miss Derbyshire The engagement is announced between David Neil son of Mr and Mrs King of Harpenden Herts and Christine daughter of Mr and Mrs A Derbyshire of Greasby Wirral Mr Smallman and Miss Bradbury The engagement is announced between Guy elder son of Mr and Mrs Tim Smallman of Solihull West Midlands and Sheena elder daughter of Mrs Colleen Bradbury of Windsor Berkshire WEDDING Mr Masters and Miss A Millin The marriage took place on Sunday Nov 5 at the Church of the Sacred Heart Lambourn between Mr Jeremy Charles Masters only son of Mr Masters and Mrs Lowis of Yorkshire and Miss Elizabeth Anne Millin younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Millin of Ramsden Oxfordshire The bride was given away by her father and was attended by Miss Mary Rose Millin and Lydia Johnson Mr Tim Holt-Wilson was best man SERVICE DINNER HMS Intrepid Officers held a Taranto Night dinner last evening on board HMS Intrepid in the Ionian Sea off the Gulf of Taranto Cdr I Goddard presided and the Rev Peter Trafford who is shortly to retire from the Royal Navy was the principal guest England playing China for silver By Our Chess Correspondent England enters the final round of the world chess team championships in Lucerne today battling for the silver medal against Yugoslavia Both sides have 191 points but while England plays China one of the weaker teams Yugoslavia faces the Americans still smarting after their 3)4 defeat by England in round 8 The first place of the Soviet Union is not in doubt The following were the moves of brutal victory over the United States top board: Short Seirawan from 1923 to 1924 In Leningrad in 1924 he made 23 appearances playing 11 different programmes and 200 different compositions In that year too he appeared with the Moscow conductorless orchestra which agreed tempo changes at committee meetings The Soviet regime at this period still encouraged studies abroad and in 1925 gave Horowitz an exit visa obtained under the unlikely pretext that he wanted to have lessons' from Schnabel his antithesis as a pianist Horowitz was not to return to Russia for 61 years On Jan 2 1926 he made his Berlin debut the critics comparing him with Busoni and Paderewski He then appeared in Holland France Italy and Spain In Germany his flamboyant way of life was the talk of the town It was said that he did not arrive at one grand party in his honour until midnight whereupon he went to the basement to play table tennis with his chauffeur Debuts in London and New York followed in 1928 His playing of flat minor concerto in Carnegie Hall on Jan 12 1928 was also the occasion of Sir Thomas New York conducting debut Pianist and conductor disagreed over tempi and Horowitz ended a bar ahead of the orchestra to expressed disgust and the ecstatic delight Nevertheless when Beecham founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra in October 1932 he invited Horowitz to play the same concerto with him at a Hall concert the next month In 1929 his Vienna debut caused a sensation Among the audience was the young pianist Peter Stadlen (later to be music critic of The Daily Telegraph) who was still thrilled nearly 40 years later by the reissue of the Paganini-Liszt Etude in flat which Horowitz recorded a few weeks after he had played it as an encore on that historic occasion Stadlen added: all the unforgivable ways of pulling about sharp minor Waltz or his Mazurka in the same key I love none more After the New York debut Horowitz conquered musical America city by city In 1931 he was invited by President Hoover to give a recital in the White House In 1933 he played the concerto in the New York Beethoven cycle conducted by Arturo Toscanini Later that year he married the daughter Wanda and was tyrannically bullied at rehearsals by his father-in-law! As a result of prolonged efforts to suppress his musical and sexual instincts (he had had homosexual relationships) Horowitz had a severe breakdown in 1936 That he overcame it was largely thanks to the help and friendship accorded him by Rachmaninov On Remembrance Sunday Nov 12 the Queen will lay her wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall shortly after the observation of the Two Silence on the first stroke of 11am by Big Ben Security is to be stepped up at military cemeteries to tackle rising vandalism The Commonwealth War Graves Commission said in its annual report published yesterday that some cemeteries had been badly abused with memorials damaged or stolen The report also gave details of two war cemeteries in the Soviet Union of which nothing had been heard since the end of the 1939-45 War An official was able to visit the Murmansk New British Cemetery while representatives from the German war graves organisation went to the war cemetery at Jelgava Latvia to carry out an inspection on the behalf By Jenny Rees was a constant reminder that peace and freedom could not be bought cheaply He said: pay the price in damaged lives Damaged by injuries and disabilities damaged by thwarted careers by absence of a husband a father a mother a wife or young Handed a poppy by Mr Simon Weston the former Welsh Guardsman who was seriously burned during the Falklands campaign the Duke urged the public to be more generous than ever this year Mr Ian Cannell the appeal chairman said that while many people believed Poppy Day was associated with a war begun 50 years ago there had been 70 minor conflicts since then He said: you are disabled or widowed it makes no difference whether it happened in a major or a minor VLADIMIR HOROWITZ the Russian-born pianist who has died in New York aged 85 was a musician who aroused extremes of reaction among his listeners where his interpretations were concerned But none could deny his phe- nomenal virtuosity the mercurial speed and power of his playing and in his prime his accuracy and mastery of dynamic contrasts These were his trademarks as much as his dapper appearance always with a striking bow-tie His was always a highly-strung demonic virtuosity finding its most eloquent and satisfying outlet in the music of Liszt Prokofiev Scriabin and Rachmaninov His Chopin was at its strongest in his high-voltage playing of the waltzes ballades mazurkas and scherzos rather than in the poetic nocturnes In Schumann much as he loved it he sometimes seemed unable or unwilling to accept the simplicity of the ideas at their face value and sophisticated the music for example) to a degree some found intolerable but many more were prepared to countenance for the sake of the novel and often highly perceptive insights he offered and for the sheer beauty of touch of the playing In Mozart he could be idiosyncratic but always as in his playing of Scarlatti sonatas he was crystalline in articulation ebullient in spirit dazzling in textural clarity Horowitz waited until he was nearly 83 before he recorded a Mozart concerto when he declared: is No 1 for He regarded him as a and played him in that style He was ambivalent in his approach to Beethoven most of whose sonatas were in his repertoire the patience to think about the he confessed want genius not his learning That fugue! Poor pianist and poor audience for that He did not like to play Opus 111 in public: is private confessional music And something is missing a third movement His playing of Rachmaninov was in a class of its own helped by the extraordinary power of his left hand a fireball as Rudolf Serkin described it The composer said that performance of the third concerto was better than his own Horowitz appeared hardly to lift his fingers from the keyboard when he played some of the preludes giving them a fluency that was magical He confessed to being out of temperamental sympathy with Debussy but included Ravel in his repertoire Among contemporary composers he gave the first performance of Samuel sonata in 1949 Vladimir Horowitz was born at Berdichev near Kiev on Oct 1 1904 the son of a prosperous electrical engineer He was taught the piano at the age of four by his mother herself a gifted amateur and by Sergei Tarnowsky from the age of six From 1916 to 1919 he attended Kiev Conservatoire where his teacher was Felix Blumenfeld a pupil of Anton Rubinstein intention was to be a composer but he gave piano recitals to earn a living and to assist his family who had been deprived of their possessions by the Revolution His public debut was in Kiev on May 301920 In Kharkov in 1922 he gave 15 concerts for which the fee was food and clothing When Horowitz was 17 he and his friend the violinist Nathan Milstein joined a mobile artistic brigade which took music into factories and collective farms His reputation in Russia grew with a series of 70 recitals in Moscow Kiev and Leningrad BENIGNO ZACCAGNINI the Italian politician who has died at Ravenna aged 77 was secretary-general of the governing Christian Democratic party in the worst years of terrorism in the late 1970s He had the tragic task of deciding whether the Christian Democrats should approve negotiations with the Red Brigades after they kidnapped his mentor and closest political friend Aldo Moro Zaccagnini was the honest face of the Christian Democratic party which has been somewhat tarnished by uninterrupted power since the 1939-45 War Before taking up politics full time he had been a doctor known for treating poor patients free Benigno Zaccagnini was born at Faenza in 1912 During the war he fought alongside Communists and others in the Garibaldi Partisan Brigade and afterwards participated in the Constituent Assembly Although he declined the Ministry for the Army saying his first act would be to abolish it he went on to become Deputy Prime Minister leader of the Christian Democrats in the Chamber of Deputies and from 1983 a Senator The ex-partisan was extremely mild-mannered and as painfully honest as his contemporary Pope Paul VI He was also as prone to tears as Bob Benigno OF THE WORLD The Prince of Wales will attend a banquet as part of the Nehru centenary celebrations at the FORTHCOMING Wg Cdr Kendall and Miss LI Cable The engagement is announced between Wing Commander Edward Kendall MBE RAF of Rheindahlen Germany and Miss Gillian LI Cable daughter of Squadron Leader and Mrs A Cable of Upper Poppleton York Lt-Cdr Costello RN and Miss A Hart The engagement is announced between Gerard Thomas elder son of Mr and Mrs Costello of Wells Somerset and Annemarie Bernadette only daughter of Mr and Mrs Hart of Erith Kent Mr PRC Robinson and Miss Pritchard The engagement is announced between Paul son of Dr and Mrs A Robinson of New Malden Surrey and Gillian Carol only daughter of Mr and Mrs Pritchard of Fetcham Surrey Mr A Brewis and Miss Merrett The engagement is announced between Henry younger son of Mrs Susanna Brewis and the late Dr Douglas Brewis of Catton House Old Catton NpRvich Norfolk and Hayley elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Merrett of The Kiln Layer de la Haye Colchester Essex and Labarthe Baleyssauges 47120 Duras France LUNCHEON The Daily Telegraph The Group Editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph Mr Max Hastings was host at a luncheon given yesterday at the Fishermans Lodge Jesmond Dene Newcastle upon Tyne The guests were: Mrs Margaret Barbour Mr Nick Brown MP Mr Stephen Byers Mr Hugh Dixon Prof Ian Fells Mr Richard Lines Prof Laurence Martin Mr Joe Mills Mr Paul Nicholson Mr Allan Prosser Mr John SR Swanson Mr Tony Tynan Mr Peter Vaughan and Mr Peter Wickens The Daily Telegraph was also represented by Mr Bill Ellerd-Styles Miss Chris Tighe Miss Jill Hall and Miss Carolyn Mulcahy DINNERS Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress Sir Christopher and Lady Collett accompanied by the Sheriffs and their ladies were present at the annual banquet of the Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders held last night at the Mansion House The Master Mr Solomon presided and other speakers were the Lord Mayor Lord Prior Mr John Wells and MrG A Alton Anglo-Israel Association Mr Cecil Parkinson MP Secretary of State for Transport and Mr Dan Meridor Israeli Minister of Justice were guests of honour and speakers at the 41st annual dinner of the Anglo-Israel Association held last night at Grosvenor House The President Baroness Elliot of Harwood presided and Mr Michael Latham MP Chairman of the Executive Committee also spoke Among those present were: The Countess of Avon Lord and Lady Bottomley Lady Byers Lord and Lady Glenamara Lord Goodman Lady Rothschild Lord and Lady Wakehurst and Lord Wigoder QC and Lady Wigoder Company of Furniture Makers The Furniture Company held its annual ladies dinner last night at the Royal Institute of British Architects The Master Mr John Reid presided and the other speakers were the principal guest Sir Colin Cole Garter Principal King of Arms and Col Brian Kay Scottish Financial Enterprise Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) held its annual dinner on Monday at the Royal Museum of Scotland Edinburgh Mr John Smith QC MP was the principal guest Leading figures from the Scottish financial and business community attended Marsden Club The Vice-Provost of Eton Mr TSB Card was guest of honour at the triennial dinner of the Marsden Club held last night at Hall Mr David Barton was in the chair EVENTS The Queen will hold an Investiture at Buckingham Palace 11 Prince Philip Patron and Twelfth Man of the Taverners presents the 1989 County Championship rophy to the winning team at Buckingham Palace 3 Chancellor of Edinburgh University will attend a reception given by the Edinburgh University Club of London at the Caledonian Club 7 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Commandant in Chief Royal Air Force Central Flying School will name a British Railways engine Red at Cross Station 1 1 Princess Margaret will attend Evensong in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the death of Archbishop Thomas Cran-mer455 life Guard mounts Horse Guards 11 Guard mounts Buckingham Palace 1130 British Library: Houses: The 11 Original Alice: The Writing of 2 "Early printing and the 230 Highgate Literary Scientific Institution South Grove Highgate: The Lord Dain-ton FRS British Library: a Temple and a Warehouse of Knowledge" 815 St Fleet St: Stephen Dandridge piano recital 115 St Lawrence Jewry: Philip Kenyon organ recital 1 P35 THE Duke of York launched the 1989 Poppy Appeal for the Royal British Legion yesterday by asking people to remember that lives lost by British troops in the Falklands campaign and in Northern Ireland were the sacrifice in the fight for peace and freedom The Duke who served as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands conflict said he warmly welcomed decision to seek a solution to the dispute by peaceful means Speaking at the Royal Hospital Chelsea he said: of us should be encouraged by last meeting in Madrid where Britain and Argentina were at last able to make serious moves towards The sacrifices of British troops he said had guaranteed a future of peace and freedom for the Falkland Islanders The situation in Northern Ireland WAY Sewage consumers ONE OF the very few things on which everyone seems to be agreed these days from Mrs Thatcher to the bureaucrats in Brussels froBi Mr Kinnock to Mr Ashgrove from the to the bat-hating West Country recluse Mr Au-beron Waugh is that sewage system is in a disgraceful state of repair and needs to have billions of pounds spent on it without delay The only point on which they differ is who should foot the bill for this vital task One popular view was given in a news programme the other night by a lugubrious individual who was described as having been something immensely important in the but who had resigned in protest against the privatisation plans Over film of a crumbling Victorian sewer carrying the stuff out into the sea near Torquay this eminent former official said that what had prompted him to resign was the shocking notion that the should have to pay to put things right The clear implication was that rather than the having to pay the Government should provide the money It may seem a familiar point but of course it would not be Mrs Thatcher personally who would thus be footing the bill but the taxpayers And the one thing which every taxpayer by definition must be is a of In other words the bill for mending our sewage pipes is going to have to be paid by the anyway whether through higher water bills or through higher taxes The only difference between the two solutions is that if the bill was met out of taxes the multi-millionaire would in effect be having to pay rather more to have his sewage carted away than a one-parent family in a tower block which is not the way that opponents of the privatisation of water usually put the case but it is all their argument amounts to Unless of course they believe that the money required simply grows on trees which I suspect most of them do For two years he lived in Zaccagnini supremacy Third Man WE ARE all so punch-drunk from reading the new Shock Horror style of obituary these days that it may sometimes take a second reading before some particularly sensational revelation sinks in One such was contained in the delightful notice in this paper last week of the late Commander Emmett containing the sentence: captained the MI5 cricket team and was honorary secretary of the Anglo-Corfu Cricket The historical accident whereby Corfu has for the past 160 years been the leading cricketing nation of the eastern Mediterranean is of course familiar to lovers of the game But the truly startling revelation here was the almost throwaway reference to the cricket the very existence of which has hitherto been one of the most closely guarded secrets of the post-war era Not even Chapman Pincher has ever penetrated the real reason why Kim Philby originally earned the sobriquet of the but now at last it seems that this incredible story is emerging to the gaze of an astonished world So shrouded in mystery were the activities of this strangest of all cricket teams that opponents were never allowed to know the identity of any of the players and in one notable match between MI5 and MI6 the scorecard simply read caught and bowled 001 But now it seems the world is to learn for the first time how the Cricket Asso was the front for a daring operation to infiltrate thousands of agents into nearby Albania disguised as Montenegrin spin-bowlers In fact it is only a few years since one former MI5 agent was about to blow the gaffe in a book called but eventually thanks to top-level Government pressure all references to cricket were removed the title was changed to something more harmless and it seems that no one ever heard of the book again End of the road? JOHN Shelby Spong is the American bishop who last year played a leading role in the consecration of the first black divorced lady bishop He has also now published a book called Living In Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality which argues that marriages and homosexual should be solemnised in church This is the book which the Dean of Norwich the Very Rev David Edwards often described as one of the leading in the Church of England has apparently described as There is infinite theological subtlety behind this use of the term Normally a like the Dean of Norwich would only use as a term of abuse but here it seems he is using it to convey quite the opposite message that Bishop Spong is in fact being very restrained and could go much further if he wanted to The trouble is that once the church has started down this path it actually require much imagination to see that there are not really very many permutations left to the The day when Bishop Spong and Dean Edwards get round to the of two divorced lesbian should just about wrap the whole thing up But by that time alas if the experience of Bishop rapidly disintegrating Episcopalian Church is anything to go by there be anyone left to listen Not black? is Green says (Wells Journal) Peter Simple II Welsh bridge congress results The Welsh Bridge Union Congress was held at the Seabank Hotel Porthcawl during the weekend with 400 players competing Results: Porthcawl Cup Teams Championship: 1 A Williams (Avon) Luck (Wales) Mr Mrs Goldenfield (Manchester) 166vps 2 Hoskins I Draper Holmes Levine (Surrey Kent) 152 3 John Clements (Wales) Davies DrG Shaw (Kent) 149 Tusker Rock Trophy: 1 Baker Auch-terlonie Mrs Pottage Pottage (Hants Isle of Wight) 2 McRobert A Shaw-don Davies A Hart (Surrey) Sker Trophy: 1 Mr Mrs Chimes (Wales) Mrs McCrombie Hooper (Wales) Mr Mrs Foley Isaacs Darke (Middlesex) Red Dragon Pairs Championship: 1 Mr Mrs Bobby (London) 677mps 2 Kurba-lija Salisbury (Wales) 641 Little Dragon: 1 A Radcliff Hockey (Wales) 450mps 2 Mr 4 Mrs Timberlake (Surrey) 440 Mixed Pairs: 1 Mr Mrs Bobby (London) 2 Mr Mrs A Howarth (Wales) Pairs: 1 Davies Shaw (Kent Wales): 2 Goodman Edwards (Wales) Pairs: 1 Miss Clench Mrs Carr (Wales Sussex) 2 Mrs Thomas Mrs Jones (Wales) Seagull Cup: Dinnen Mr Mrs Needham Mrs Kurbalija (Wales) Dewi Sant Trophy: Mr Mrs A Howarth Char-lesworth Pratt (Wales) Prince of Wales Trophy: Mrs Ingram Mrs Cox (Wales) Rare bat rescued One of rarest bats has been found after a pine tree was cut down The Nathusius pipistrelle a native of Eastern Europe and less than 2in long was found in Penlee Park Penzance Cornwall and is being cared for by Mrs Ginni Little at her home in Penzance after having a broken wing amputated Only six of the species have been recorded in Britain before Celtic art show A collection of Irish archaeological treasures is to go on show in Britain starting at the British Museum in London on Nov 28 He made his home in the Adriatic port of Ravenna whose streets he liked to wander to the anxiety of his bodyguards even when the Red Brigades were killing knee-capping and kidnapping his wife Anna he had just attended Mass there celebrated by his brother Giuseppe when he had his final heart attack Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe Yesterday we published an obituary of Dr Azikiwe the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria having understood that he had died on Friday News to this effect was broadcast on Nigerian state television and radio that night and reported in newspapers It has however since been drawn to our attention that Dr Azikiwe did not die on Friday indeed that he is very much alive We offer our profound apologies to Dr Azikiwe for perpetuating this extraordinary error Ray Jackson Aged 58 Actor who specialised in highly-strung young men such as the poetic son of a veteran cricketer in the film of Terence The Final Test (1953) Other films included Frieda Seagulls over Sorrento These Dangerous Years and Yangtse Incident Later ran the Heaven and Hell coffee bar and the Casino de Paris strip club in Soho before forming an illusionist act Zee Co Hawke whether because Moro had been riddled with bullets or because he himself had done well at a party congress When in 1980 Zaccagnini was replaced as party secretary his farewell address lasted three-and-a-half hours None the less he moved the delegates to tears perhaps because they saw the swansong of a hundred per cent honest provincial not wholly at home in cut throat politics Zaccagnini was admired rather than followed as leader of the Leftist wing of Christian Democrats but he continued to fulfil his obligations as senator to the end i.