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...gasped one awed Deputy after Premier Giulio Andreotti, 53, had outlined for the Italian Parliament what he expected from his new government. "That wasn't a program for a beach government. That wasn't even a program for a whole [fiveyear] parliamentary period. That was a program for two Parliaments...
...appeared. A "beach government," in Italy's cyclical political crises, is one formed to last for the summer vacation, when politicians traditionally join their families at the seashore. Some expected Andreotti's coalition of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Liberals to be no more than that, particularly since it was approved by a narrow 329-to-288 vote in the Chamber of Deputies and by 163 to 155 in the Senate...
...alltime record of 82 parties have nominated candidates for the May elections, which President Giovanni Leone has called a year ahead of schedule after Giulio Andreotti's failure to form yet another center-left coalition government (TIME. Feb. 21). The parties range from far left to far right (one is even called the National Reactionary Movement), but some are a bit difficult to categorize ideologically. In addition to the Association of Free Merchants and the Autonomous Party of Pensioners, for instance, there is the all-nudist Naturalist Movement, whose candidate this year is Model Anna Maria Martini, 25. Proponents...
...protest inflationary government spending. When the Republicans pulled out, Premier Emilio Colombo resigned from office, and Italy since then has been without effective government. President Giovanni Leone asked Colombo to try to form a new one. When he finally admitted failure, Leone turned to yet another Christian Democrat, Giulio Andreotti, the party's floor leader in the Chamber of Deputies...
...week's end Andreotti was holding summit talks with other leaders and tinkering with alternatives. The Christian Democrats still wanted another coalition. Even if Andreotti succeeded in forming one, no one gave such a government much chance to last. If he does not succeed, the most plausible alternative is that the Christian Democrats, who do not have a clear majority in the Chamber, might try to carry on as a one-party monocolore government which could be brought down at any time. That would simply be the next step toward dissolving Parliament and sending Italians to the polling booths...