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...Venice. Wits went too far in talking about a "lame-duck summit." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected in January, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of winning a third term, and French President Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, hard by the Grand Canal, came...
...Amintore Fanfani (Christian Democrat...
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...Cabinet of Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani was only ten days old when it fell last week. That made it one of the shortest lived of Italy's 46 postwar governments. The collapse left President Francesco Cossiga no choice but to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for elections in June, a year ahead of schedule. Said the weekly L'Espresso: "We are on the eve of a real war of everybody against everybody...
...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...