Word: emilio
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...lacking, the government's decision to go public with charges that had until then appeared only in the form of rumors and leaks in Italian newspapers has created one of the worst crises in years between a NATO country and a member of the Warsaw Pact. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo announced that the Italian government had taken measures to reduce sharply Bulgaria's diplomatic presence in Rome and to make it harder for Bulgarians to enter Italy. He expressed concern that Bulgaria's action, if proved, would have grave consequences for East-West relations. Said...
...addition, Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem reportedly told his Italian counterpart, Emilio Colombo, that the Lebanese army will have to be enlarged from 22,000 men to 50,000 or even 60,000 in order to provide for the country's security once the Syrian and Israeli occupiers have been withdrawn. Such an increase cannot be achieved quickly. Gemayel could fill the army's ranks with troops from the Christian militias that solidly support him. But that could prove disastrous at a time when he is trying hard to reunite the country. The Reagan Administration at first appeared...
...were the other European Foreign Ministers Shultz consulted: Britain's Francis Pym, Italy's Emilio Colombo and Belgium's Leo Tindemans. Shultz will now try to sort out the common interests that he heard in his conversations and propose an alliance policy on East-West trade. While the pipeline problem seems beyond solution at the moment, Shultz's fence may help contain the dispute...
...Pablo Emilio Madero, candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party...
...meantime, European protests against the pipeline sanctions poured into Washington-including one from Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo of Italy, a country with which the U.S. has no serious foreign policy disputes. As he read the plaints and monitored reports of renewed fighting in Lebanon, Haig grew increasingly morose. By midweek he was again thinking of resigning-not knowing that this was exactly what his adversaries at the White House wanted...