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...nailed together swiftly, ending a government crisis of only 16 days, one of the briefest on record. The speed was also due to President Alessandro Pertini, 83. Following the collapse of Cossiga's fragile minority "government of truce" last month, he urgently summoned Cossiga, even though it was Sunday, and asked him to try again to form a government. "The unemployed don't stop worrying on Sunday," explained Pertini, "nor do the Red Brigades stop shooting...
...Socialists announced that they would no longer keep it afloat by abstaining on key votes.* Cossiga did not bother to go through the formality of a vote of confidence. After a brief parliamentary debate, he routinely visited the Quirinale Palace to submit his resignation; just as routinely, President Alessandro Pertini asked him to stay on as caretaker...
...were demonstrations in several Western capitals, where governments expressed outrage at the treatment of Sakharov-as did a number of Communist leaders. The White House said that the Soviet action was "a blow to the aspiration of all mankind to establish respect for human rights." Italy's President Alessandro Pertini sent a cable of protest to Brezhnev. The West German government demanded that the Sakharovs be allowed to return to Moscow. France's president of the National Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, cut short his official visit to the Soviet Union and returned to Paris in indignation over...
...market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output to the U.S., is waiting to see if its product has passed a pollution test in California, a state with the most stringent environmental rules in the U.S. Maserati Managing Director Alessandro De Tomaso is confident that his car will be approved because of a costly new engine that reduces pollution and improves gas consumption-but that also cuts Maserati's vaunted vroooom...
...figures of the Venetian cinquecento-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-and the effervescent grandeur of the Tiepolos in the 18th century. Even today, when scholarship and the art market have opened every mass grave in search of something to write about and sell, the names of painters like Damiano Mazza or Alessandro Turchi do not make the pulse race...