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...retaliate in kind when NATO begins deploying medium-range missiles, and to walk out of arms negotiations. A quarter of the NATO cruise missiles are to be based in Sicily, and after Reagan's two-hour White House talk last week with Italy's Socialist Prime Minister, Bettino Craxi, both men said they remained committed to installing the first missiles before Christmas...
...opening 40 minutes, the booters looked ready to play their kind of match. Princeton stung them early, when Tiger midfielder John Bettino intercepted a bad pass at the half stripe and sent the ball to fellow halfback Tom Poz, who converted the breakaway...
...from U.S. allies, including those that have sent peace-keeping forces to Lebanon, has been mixed but generally supportive. In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said that each contingent in the multinational force must "take its own decisions about self-defense." In Italy's coalition government, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi showed concern about the U.S. intervention at Suq al Gharb, while Christian Democratic Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti and Republican Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini supported it. In Paris, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson criticized the U.S. naval action, saying it was "not the best method" of solving the crisis. Added Cheysson...
...role of the French, Italian and British forces in Lebanon is becoming a political issue back home, just as it is in the U.S. The Italian coalition of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is uneasily united in its commitment to the MNF, but the country's large Communist Party has begun a major campaign to bring the troops home. In France, the conservative opposition demanded a hit-back-or-get-out policy before Socialist President François Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that...
...some ways, Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 49, was already beginning to look like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi...