Word: andreotti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andreotti faces trying times-as usual...
...leader in recent Italian history has been able to demonstrate the mastery of persuasiva that Premier Giulio Andreotti routinely employs. Having in a few weeks time derailed a crippling strike, guarded his nation's access to continued oil shipments and committed his monetary policy to the new European plan. Andreotti is being sternly tested once again. Already under attack from within his parliamentary coalition and even from fellow Christian Democrats, he will soon face a crucial vote on his new economic program. If he loses, Italy's fragile coalition government, which relies on the Communists for support, could...
Many observers judge that if Andreotti cannot put the economic plan across, then no Italian politician can. Though he is one of the West's lesser known political leaders, he is one of its most effective. Now 59, he entered politics in 1944 as a political apprentice to the late Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi, the most respected of Italian leaders. Observes an admirer: "He was De Gasperi's tape recorder. He remembered everything and erased nothing." Andreotti has vast experience in government; he has held virtually every portfolio, including three previous turns as Prime Minister...
Unlike most Italian politicians. Andreotti is not a flamboyant orator. He speaks like a man reciting the Rome telephone directory. He is a tactician, not a grand strategist in the mold of his longtime colleague Aldo Moro, who was kidnaped on the day Andreotti's Cabinet was sworn in. "I'm not too keen on ideological discussion," Andreotti once conceded. "I couldn't tell you if Marx is better than Proudhon and if Lenin is a good or evil genius in history." Fabrizio Cicchitto, a Socialist Deputy, claims Andreotti displays "a willful absence of long-range vision...
...culpable villains (or heroes, depending of course on one's perspective) has unrest and a disturbing wave of terrorist kidnapping, murder, and sabotage. A large and diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes depending of course on one's perspective), has emerged, including such notables as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, Pope Paul VI, Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, prominent Mafia chieftains, and Brigate Rosse revolutionaries. Both the American CIA and Kremlin officials have also been charged in the Italian press with acting directly and indirectly to undermine political stability...