Word: andreotti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place but Rome! So insisted French President Georges Pompidou, when he first proposed to visit Italy for talks with President Giovanni Leone and Premier Giulio Andreotti. Pompidou explained that he wanted to skip a formal trip to the Eternal City in order to avoid the folderol-state dinners, motorcades, military honors, perhaps a papal audience-that would get in the way of the "working visit" he envisioned. Instead, he suggested something "like my meeting with Mr. Heath at Chequers," the country estate where he had met informally with the British Prime Minister last March...
...Italians suspected that the French President did not want to come to Rome lest he appear to be paying court to his hosts-a posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou did not convince...
...anybody can untangle Italian government at this point, it would appear to be Andreotti. He is both experienced and so cool and detached in his political dealings that he is said to have sangue ghiaccio (icy blood). Andreotti is Italy's first Roman-born Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti...
...Christian Democrats called for early elections and dropped the contentious Socialists from their coalition in favor of the right-of-center Liberals (TIME, May 22). As a result, the Christian Democrats picked up one seat in an election in which they had been expected to lose up to 30. Andreotti himself got more votes than any other candidate...
...addition to making Italy's 35th postwar government function, Andreotti must also maintain discipline among the nine factions of his own party. With such a narrow majority, moreover, he must somehow persuade the Socialists to cooperate instead of fighting him. Those who believe he can do it point out that Andreotti is referred to by other politicians as "the joker." In Italy, the joker is always the decisive card...