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...Italy. Justice Minister Sarti was listed only as a candidate for lodge membership, but two other Cabinet members-Labor Minister Franco Foschi and Foreign Trade Minister Enrico Manca-were listed as full members. So were such military figures as Admiral Giovanni Torrisi, the Defense Chief of Staff; General Giulio Grassini, chief of the Interior Ministry's secret intelligence service; and General Giuseppe Santovito, head of the Military Information and Security Service. Financiers included a top official of the Banco di Roma, Italy's third largest bank, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro...
...this time anything seems possible except that Calvino, 57, now an editor of the Turin house Giulio Einaudi Editore, was once a Marxist, a veteran of the World War II Resistance, who believed, in his youth, that literature should be dedicated to "political engagement," to "social battle...
...encouraged a low key, nondivisive approach to the issue in the hope of diminishing the political fallout. But the Pope's supporters maintain that it would be unthinkable for John Paul not to speak his mind on abortion in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic. Asks Giulio Andreotti, a sympathetic Christian Democrat and former Prime Minister: "How can one ask the Pope to be silent when one of the most delicate points of moral theology is at stake...
...postFascist government: a three-party minority coalition headed by Christian Democrat Francesco Cossiga, 51, a surprising but respected choice. The formation of the new Cabinet ended what had appeared to be an insoluble political crisis lasting 186 days-a new national record-and dating back to January when Premier Giulio Andreotti was toppled by the Communists' withdrawal of their parliamentary support. It also showed every sign of being a stopgap. "We will have a government of truce," quipped a deputy in a cartoon in Turin's daily Stampa Sera. "Hostilities will be resumed at a date...
Both the major parties thus appeared to have been punished by disaffected supporters for an all-too-cozy parliamentary collaboration that had supported two successive minority Cabinets headed by Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti. The Socialist Party, the country's third largest, did not fare much better; it gained five new seats for a total of 62 in the Chamber, but failed to make the headway predicted by its vigorous but erratic leader, Bettino Craxi...