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...Italian candidates for the European Parliament, the Communists had outpolled the country's largest party, the Christian Democrats, by 34.5% to 33%. It was the first time the Italian Communists had come in first in a nationwide vote. Before last week's elections, however, Socialist Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, who heads the five-party governing coalition, threatened to resign if the Communists again emerged as the leading party. The outcome was in doubt until the end because no forecasts were permitted until all polling booths had closed. In the end, the Communists' mood was changed from hope to deep...
...Craxi's coalition won a decisive vote of confidence, with a total of more than 58%. The biggest winner was the Christian Democratic Party, which bested the Communists, 35% to 30.2%. What may have worked in the Christian Democrats' favor was a heavy turnout of 44.5 million, or 89% of eligible voters. Had the Communists repeated their earlier sorpasso, or overtaking, of the Christian Democrats, they could have pushed the Craxi coalition to the brink of collapse and possibly positioned themselves for an even more critical defeat of the government by calling for early parliamentary elections, which...
...council after ten years of Communist leadership. As a result, Christian Democratic leaders are showing signs of restlessness at being the country's largest party but only a junior member of the government coalition. Analysts in Italy were asking last week if the Christian Democrats would now challenge Socialist Craxi for the Prime Minister's post or if they would seek the presidency, held by Socialist Sandro Pertini, whose term ends next month...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, the summit host, and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher of Britain, Brian Mulroney of Canada, Bettino Craxi of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan were willing to accommodate Reagan. But Mitterrand, who appeared to relish playing France's traditional role of odd man out at economic summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might...
...other countries of participating in the research for the missile-defense program, which he said could have important nonmilitary applications. Canada's Mulroney and Japan's Nakasone were politely noncommittal; others were interested, but in some cases skeptical, about just what contributions the U.S. wanted. Said Italy's Craxi: "We don't want to make just the carpets and - the screws for the spaceships." Kohl gave SDI a personal endorsement; though the British government is known to be worried about the strategic implications of SDI, Thatcher indicated a desire to share in the research effort. Said she: "Our inventiveness...