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...coalition depended on Socialist votes in Parliament to give it a majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...
With only 21% of the voters identifying themselves as Republicans in the Gallup poll, Mac Mathias is concerned that the G.O.P. may so narrow its base as to "sign its own death warrant." He sees himself as a "centrist" able to appeal to independents and middle-of-the-road voters disenchanted with both parties. But why not fight from within his own party for the nomination? Because that, he believes, would only pour "water on Reagan's wheel." The entrance of any moderate or liberal Republican would undoubtedly draw more G.O.P. votes away from Ford than Reagan, thus increasing...
...Communists Party (PCE), now holding the lion's share of working class support, has yielded to the other parties on a key point: it has withdrawn its opposition to Juan Carlos' accession. In return the other, more centrist, parties have promised the Communists that the PCE's exclusion from the political system--which Juan Carlos has guaranteed to Franco die-hards as well as Washington--will not be tolerated...
...transfer of power in a dictatorship is seldom smooth. Yet it is probable that Juan Carlos' authority will not be challenged immediately. "Although many people in the opposition will not accept him because of his close association with Franco," observed Centrist Politician Marcelino Oreja, "most Spaniards want to give him a chance." No one knows for certain, however, whether Juan Carlos has the courage to break with the "bunker"-the group of hardline rightists who were Franco's most loyal backers and can be expected to oppose any realistic political reforms...
...Communists will oppose any government that does not include members of the Junta Democrática, an organization founded last year that supposedly represents centrist and leftist groups but is probably a Communist front. If the new regime fails to bring the Socialists into the government, the Communists may also try to woo them into an opposition national-front movement. "If Juan Carlos does not offer change and change quickly," warned a party official last week in Madrid, "he will be consigning himself to oblivion." From Paris, Carrillo was blunter, vowing "a wave of terror that will lead...