Word: cossiga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant "in the promise than in the reality," says NBC News President Lawrence Grossman. What the export market does provide, however, is an elite audience, composed largely of international businessmen, government officials, journalists and opinion makers.The houses of parliament in Sweden and Norway receive CNN, and Italian President Francesco Cossiga is said to be a fan. When CNN aired a briefing on the Middle East by Secretary of State George Shultz last February, Jordan's King Hussein, watching in Paris, quickly called the network's Atlanta headquarters to respond...
...return to the "bad old days" now looms large, particularly after the temporary fall of Goria's coalition in November. Laments Treasury Secretary Giuliano Amato: "Item by item, you go through the list of changes, and every plus is now a minus." After Goria offered his resignation, President Francesco Cossiga asked him to try again, and Goria quickly returned to office with a new vote of confidence. But the next political crisis was already waiting in the wings...
...Cabinet of Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani was only ten days old when it fell last week. That made it one of the shortest lived of Italy's 46 postwar governments. The collapse left President Francesco Cossiga no choice but to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for elections in June, a year ahead of schedule. Said the weekly L'Espresso: "We are on the eve of a real war of everybody against everybody...
...Cossiga's move ended a rancorous eight-week search for a successor to the five-party coalition that Bettino Craxi headed for 3 1/2 years. Craxi's government fell apart in March, after months of infighting between his Socialists and the Christian Democrats over which party should hold the premiership. The polemics and the politics surrounding the collapse were so bizarre, said a Milan daily, that "this republic risks dying of ridicule...
...Andreotti! Andreotti!" The word spread from table to table in restaurants near the Italian Parliament, as lunching politicians learned that President Francesco Cossiga had selected Giulio Andreotti, 67, to form Italy's 45th government since World War II. The diners had been pondering the government's future since Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi resigned as leader of the five-party coalition three weeks...