Word: cossiga
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...leftist organization second in notoriety only to the Red Brigades. Sandalo's testimony, they hoped, might enable them to catch and indict a few of his revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections from a ho-hum event into a hard-fought and hard-to-predict contest. And it seemed certain to give the powerful Communists a valuable opposition issue for some...
...father learned that police were about to start a man hunt for Marco, he summoned Sandalo and begged him to warn his son that he should flee the country. But who tipped off Donat-Cattin about the impending arrest? Sandalo claimed it came from the top-from Prime Minister Cossiga himself...
...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...
...last year's election, "historic compromise" of a governing alliance with established democratic parties has become elusive. For one thing, the Communists were shunted into outright opposition by the new center-left coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republicans formed two weeks ago by Premier Francesco Cossiga. For another, the Communist Party's own vaunted internal discipline has suffered; last month, for the first time, more than 30 left-wing Communist deputies rebelled against their party whips on a foreign policy vote in Parliament. By going to China, which Italy's militant left regards...
...alliance that did not also include Enrico Berlinguer's Communists. When the Christian Democrats last month ruled out any such deala reflection of stiffening anti-Communist public opinion in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistanthe Socialists withdrew their tepid support of Cossiga's minority government. Since then, however, Craxi has decided to switch rather than fight: exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back him in joining a government without the Communists. In exchange he is to have a stronger role in policymaking...