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...government, the 39th since the end of World War II, revives the old center-left alliance that ruled Italy for more than a decade after 1962. The three-party coalition Cabinet is made up of 16 Christian Democrats, nine Socialists and three members of the small, centrist Republican Party. It will have a majority of 25 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies the first clear majority any Italian government has enjoyed in six years...
...phased out over the next ten years. Instead, even though the referendum was not constitutionally binding, the government is now obliged to move forward with a national plan to continue developing nuclear energy for at least another 25 years. Still sporting his NO, THANK YOU button after the vote, Centrist Premier Thorbjörn Falldin went on national television. "I remain personally opposed to nuclear power," he said. "But my conscience is not the decisive factor. Swedes have spoken, and I am pledged to carry out their will...
...Roman Catholic hierarchy, but are also hotly contested by the left, which wants even greater reform. Such controversies point up the paralyzing disunity within Suárez's own Union of the Democratic Center, which is less a political party than a loose coalition of moderates ranging from centrist liberals to former Franco conservatives...
Labor's N.E.C. is dominated by leftists; their guiding light is proletarian aristocrat Tony Benn, an M.P. who aspires to succeed Callaghan as party leader. The internecine squabbling has led to fear that the party could split into two irreconcilable segments: a centrist group of Social Democrats, some of whom favor an alliance with the Liberal Party, and an openly leftist party that would tolerate the Red Moles and other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness...
...elected to office in major Italian cities in the party's wave of election victories in 1975 and 1976. Like most of the others, he is decidedly frustrated, because as a group Italy's Communist mayors have been no more successful at solving urban problems than their centrist or right-wing predecessors...