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...Cossiga's new Cabinet
...years the prevailing wisdom in Rome has held that no effective Italian government could be formed without the support of the powerful Communists. Last week, with an alacrity that was unusual for Rome politics, Premier Francesco Cossiga, 51, put the lie to that notion: the Christian Democratic leader not only succeeded in forming a surprisingly solid-looking government but pushed the Communists into outright opposition...
...Cossiga's new government, the 39th since the end of World War II, revives the old center-left alliance that ruled Italy for more than a decade after 1962. The three-party coalition Cabinet is made up of 16 Christian Democrats, nine Socialists and three members of the small, centrist Republican Party. It will have a majority of 25 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies the first clear majority any Italian government has enjoyed in six years...
...nailed together swiftly, ending a government crisis of only 16 days, one of the briefest on record. The speed was also due to President Alessandro Pertini, 83. Following the collapse of Cossiga's fragile minority "government of truce" last month, he urgently summoned Cossiga, even though it was Sunday, and asked him to try again to form a government. "The unemployed don't stop worrying on Sunday," explained Pertini, "nor do the Red Brigades stop shooting...
...week's end, President Pertini asked Cossiga to try to form a new government. He accepted the mandate with an understandable lack of enthusiasm. "As of today, no governing formula has emerged," he had told aides. "This is strictly a game of chance." Whether or not he succeeds, the three major parties will undoubtedly find some way of avoiding an alternative that none favors: new national elections. Both the Socialists and Christian Democrats are divided on the issue of Communists in the government. Meanwhile, Berlinguer's party is showing signs of discord over his moderate policies and charges...