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...Italian newspaper published a photograph last year of Berlusconi receiving communion at the 2000 private funeral in Tunisia of former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. Giuliani for his part was much more bold in his defiance of the ban, lining up for communion (offered in the pews by a priest) at the St. Patrick's Cathedral Mass during the Pope's visit to New York in April. New York's Archbishop, Cardinal Edward Egan, later publicly scolded the former mayor and presidential candidate, saying they had "an understanding" that he would not take Communion. A spokeswoman for Giuliani said...
...European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian government of Bettino Craxi harshly criticized the operation, while Helmut Kohl's West Germany was anxiously quiet. TIME's Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, sent this report on the new strain in Atlantic relations...
...mutual assurances, anything to quell the bad feelings stirred by the hijacking a few weeks earlier of the Achille Lauro. Washington extended a hand to Italy, Egypt and Tunisia--and each, in turn, responded with varying degrees of warmth. In Italy, where a rancorous debate over Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's handling of the incident toppled the government two weeks ago, Craxi took steps to resurrect his five-party coalition. In Egypt, where students had taken to the streets, burning American flags and chanting provocative anti-U.S. slogans, calm was restored. But even as the bruised countries sought...
...healing process began Oct. 19 in Rome with a "Dear Bettino ... Sincerely, Ron" letter from the White House, hand-delivered to Craxi by Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead. After reading the President's conciliatory message, Craxi announced his intention to attend last week's minisummit in New York City called by Reagan. Hours before that meeting, the two men had a 25-minute chat. Craxi, who later described their conversation as "good, and not falsely friendly," reiterated the reasons why he had ignored Washington's Oct. 12 request for the provisional arrest of Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan...
...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...