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Craxi's attempts to soothe ruffled feelings at home were less encouraging. After being invited by President Francesco Cossiga to stitch together Italy's 45th postwar government, Craxi tried first to patch things up with his old coalition partners. Most notably, he opened talks with acting Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini, who precipitated the government's downfall by withdrawing his Republican Party from Craxi's center-left coalition. In a meeting that insiders described as "cordially chilly," Craxi and Spadolini pledged to continue talking. But Spadolini, who supports the U.S. and Israel and has opposed the Craxi government's rapport with...
Nearly 5,000 mourners gathered in the Alpine village of Tesero for the communal burial of 33 local victims of the collapse of a dam complex that devastated the Stava River valley on July 19. The day before the interment, Italian President Francesco Cossiga had visited the town and promised the government would prosecute those responsible. Later in the week, two brothers who owned the collapsed mining-company dams, as well as the firm's manager, were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and causing a disaster. Authorities summoned 60 people for questioning about operations at the two dams...
...eminence. "Letta is a formidable ambassador," says Giuliano Ferrara, a conservative newspaper editor and occasional Berlusconi adviser, "but he's not a real political adviser, not a Karl Rove. Someone who always counsels generic prudence is useful, but it's incomplete." And former President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga wonders just how much advice the boss hears. "For someone like Berlusconi, who comes from a modest background and has had that kind of success, it's hard not to think he's always right." Whatever detractors say, Letta's boss seems convinced of his talents. At last month's press...
...wouldn't there be cause for concern?" Previti made a surprise appearance in court on Friday after months of absences excused by medical certificates and his own parliamentary business. He listened to a fellow defendant parry questions about alleged bribes and Swiss bank accounts for about an hour. Francesco Cossiga, former President of the Republic and a sometime Berlusconi ally, said the rush to pass the change of venue law before the Milan verdicts are reached has "thrown a shadow'' over what otherwise would be a reasonable proposal to protect rights of the accused. Cossiga told TIME he believes Berlusconi...
...result, the SVR'S foreign tentacles are probing in many places. Earlier this year, Italian authorities rounded up 28 high-tech spies in what former President Francesco Cossiga called the largest Soviet network ever uncovered in Europe. Since the espionage arrests in Belgium, the Dutch government has expelled four Russians engaged in covert activity, while France, acting on a tip from the CIA, has uncovered five apparently unwitting accomplices to the Russian ring that operated out of Brussels...