Word: cossiga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe since World War II, which authorities attribute to neo-Fascist extremists, demonstrably deepened public distrust of Italian officialdom. Outside the cathedral, a crowd of 200,000 jammed the Piazza Maggiore and made their feelings known. Popular President Alessandro Pertini received only token applause, while Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and other political leaders were greeted with whistles and boos. Only seven of the victims' coffins were lined up before the main altar for the public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against a state they blamed...
...tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism in Italy...
...What is essential is that all efforts should not be contrary to Camp David, nor support Camp David, but be alongside Camp David." So said Italian Premier Francesco Cossiga last week moments after the European Community summit in Venice had unveiled one of the most assertive initiatives that Europe as a whole has undertaken in years. It was no less than a major diplomatic effort to bring its own political force to bear on the search for peace in the Middle East, and to get the long-ostracized Palestine Liberation Organization into the peace process...
Although a parliamentary commission questioned the Prime Minister and voted 11 to 9 to drop the case, Enrico Berlinguer's Communist Party accused Cossiga of misusing his office and demanded his resignation. Publicly, the parties that constitute Cossiga's coalition-the Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republicans-proclaimed their support of the beleaguered Prime Minister, and he staunchly refused to resign. "Is it possible that anyone could accuse me of protecting terrorists?" Cossiga asked friends incredulously. After all, Cossiga had served as Interior Minister from 1976 to 1978, Italy's worst period of terrorism, and had refused...
...answer the insinuations." So far he has not been very successful. At first he insisted that he had not been in touch with his son for a couple of years; later he conceded that he had contacted him through Sandalo. He also admitted that he had gone to see Cossiga to learn details about his son's case, but denied that he got any solid information from the Prime Minister. The warning about his son's arrest warrant, he claims, came in an anonymous letter that he says he later destroyed...