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...kind when NATO begins deploying medium-range missiles, and to walk out of arms negotiations. A quarter of the NATO cruise missiles are to be based in Sicily, and after Reagan's two-hour White House talk last week with Italy's Socialist Prime Minister, Bettino Craxi, both men said they remained committed to installing the first missiles before Christmas...
...allies, including those that have sent peace-keeping forces to Lebanon, has been mixed but generally supportive. In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said that each contingent in the multinational force must "take its own decisions about self-defense." In Italy's coalition government, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi showed concern about the U.S. intervention at Suq al Gharb, while Christian Democratic Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti and Republican Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini supported it. In Paris, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson criticized the U.S. naval action, saying it was "not the best method" of solving the crisis. Added Cheysson...
...role of the French, Italian and British forces in Lebanon is becoming a political issue back home, just as it is in the U.S. The Italian coalition of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is uneasily united in its commitment to the MNF, but the country's large Communist Party has begun a major campaign to bring the troops home. In France, the conservative opposition demanded a hit-back-or-get-out policy before Socialist President François Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that...
...skeptics, including the Communists and some Christian Democrats, a Socialist-led government promised to be little more than a passing novelty. They saw no reason to believe that Craxi, for all his reformist zeal, could be more successful than his dozens of predecessors who fell victims to Parliament's inexhaustible talent for fomenting political instability. There were optimistic politicians, though, who saw grounds for hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern...
...ambitious Craxi who provoked early elections by withdrawing from the four-party governing coalition headed by Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani. Craxi had hoped that his Socialists would make significant gains at the polls. But they merely inched up, from 9.8% to 11.4%, far short of expectations. In the process, however, the election set off what Italian newspapers called a political "earthquake." The Christian Democrats suffered an unprecedented loss of more than 5%, dropping from 38% to 33% of the popular vote. What shook the political establishment even more was a wave of protest votes, estimated...