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Both the major parties thus appeared to have been punished by disaffected supporters for an all-too-cozy parliamentary collaboration that had supported two successive minority Cabinets headed by Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti. The Socialist Party, the country's third largest, did not fare much better; it gained five new seats for a total of 62 in the Chamber, but failed to make the headway predicted by its vigorous but erratic leader, Bettino Craxi...
...attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...Autonomisti claimed that the police roundup of their members was orchestrated by Premier Andreotti's Christian Democrats to attract the law-and-order vote in the election. But the Communists, who have been anxious to dissociate themselves from Italy's nonstop terrorism, took a tough line against both the detained Autonomisti and reckless intellectuals in general. Ugo Pecchioli, a party spokesman, declared that responsibility for Italy's appalling level of terrorism-the toll already this year is 15 dead and 85 injured-lay not only with the bombers and assassins but also "with those who for years...
That prospect, which causes shudders in Washington and other Western capitals, arose because Premier Giulio Andreotti finally gave up on a government that was "born to die," as newspapers called it. In January an Andreotti-led government that had ruled Italy since last spring collapsed when the Communists withdrew their support. At Pertini's behest, Andreotti then put together a jerry-built minority government consisting of his own Christian Democrats, the Republicans and the Social Democrats. The Premier's scenario was to present this weakling coalition to the senate, get a no-confidence vote that would lead...
...Premier had many reasons for wanting early elections now. Although 1.7 million Italians are out of work and inflation (annual rate: 12.9%) remains high, Andreotti's policies have helped stabilize the lira and brought the economy to the verge of a new boom. In 1978 Italy piled up an impressive $6.4 billion balance of payments surplus and increased exports by 10%. Says an aide to the Premier: "In the last three years, we put through more constructive legislation than all the governments of the past 15 years put together." The Christian Democrats hope to regain the support of disillusioned...