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...included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi, was not only a member of P2, but was believed to be the lodge's paymaser, allegedly funding right-wing Latin leaders...
...secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through the lodge's influential membership. The discovery of P2 and its flock of politicians helped to topple the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani...
Politically, Italy is, as ever, teetering on the brink of instability. Spadolini became Prime Minister last summer after Christian Democrat Arnaldo Forlani was forced out by a scandal involving the membership of high government officials in a mysterious Masonic lodge. So far, Spadolini seems to be faring reasonably well In a recent poll, 62% of those interviewed approved of the way he is handling his job, a high figure in a notoriously cynical electorate. But the jovial Prime Minister has a handicap. A member of the small center Republican Party, he is the first non-Christian Democrat to head...
...government turned out to be more of the same. Out of his 27-member Cabinet, there are 15 Christian Democrats, and they hold the key posts of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice, Treasury and Industry. Moreover, Spadolini this week presents a program to parliament much like that of his predecessor, Arnaldo Forlani. In fact, the Italian economy is so dangerously out of control that any government would have few alternatives...
...days, Arnaldo Forlani had tried to resolve Italy's latest political crisis as if the scandal that caused it could be ignored. Last week he gave up the effort to find enough support among five political parties to succeed himself as the leader of Italy's 41st government in 35 years. Italians thus settled in for a prolonged period of political paralysis brought on by allegations that a 953-member secret Masonic group, the P2 Lodge, included some of the nation's political, military and business elite-and three of Forlani's Cabinet ministers. Police have...