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...spilled over into the international arena. The Italian government will not allow their bases to be used in any Iraq attack -- an unprecedented step. "They've never played hardball with the Americans," says Burke. "There are lots of calls to renegotiate the agreement for the bases." Defense Minister Beniamino Andreatta told the Italian parliament: "What happened is incomprehensible." The plane's pilot, Richard Ashby, told an Italian newspaper that his altitude indicator malfunctioned...
...home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted a U.N. official, should "either get on the team...
...played out is Italy's formidable economic crisis, which all parties agree is about to come to a head. It blends uncontrolled government spending with rising inflation and high unemployment. Complimenting other E.C. ministers on the steps their nations had taken to stabilize their economies, outgoing Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta deplored Italy's official inertia: "I believe our people also have that same courage [to favor stabilization], but our politicians, at least some of them, do not know how to read their feelings." It may take more courage than any of the parties are willing to show...
Whatever the outcome of the current investigation, international financiers hope the scandal will prompt the Vatican to reform and open up the operations of its bank. Italian Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta has long urged the Vatican to conduct its financial affairs in pub lic. Says he: "As a Catholic, I am against this strange, secret, uncontrolled, scandal-filled administration." Andreatta and many Italian moneymen do not think that the Vatican should even be in the banking business. Says he: "It is silly for the clergy to manage directly a financial institution." The peculiar relationship between the Vatican and international high...
...general feeling that things are working for the best in the U.S. That confidence has a lot to do with Reagan's cowboy image and strong personality." Even European government officials, who have been battling to bolster their currencies, give Reagan a grudging nod. Italian Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta attributes the dollar's rise to the "coherence and very strong new credibility of the American government." But that credibility could crumble quickly at the first signs of an easing in the war on inflation...