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...beyond their own stimulus package of $4 billion to $5 billion spread over 4 to 5 years -a modest and in Mondale's view disappointing program compared with the Carter Administration's commitment to spend $31.2 billion in 20 months. In Rome, Mondale listened sympathetically to Premier Giulio Andreotti's explanation of Italy's need for a $1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to shore up its inflation-racked economy. Watching Mondale's odyssey from back home, one State Department official said: "He has been doing extraordinarily well. There...
...final days of debate, the church rained a storm of telegrams upon the legislators. Uncomfortably, Premier Giulio Andreotti's church-backed, minority Christian Democratic government tried to steer clear of the issue with a stance of aloof neutrality. "Everyone remembers that it was abortion that brought down the last government and caused an early election," explained a Cabinet official, "and no party wants to see that happen again." Still-with a careful distinction between government and party-the Christian Democrats dutifully monopolized the final debate making 13 last-ditch speeches against the passage of the bill, then made...
...Little Red Riding Hood who looks only at the nightcap and thinks that it's her grandmother," says Italy's urbane Premier Giulio Andreotti. "But at the same time, I am not so reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...
...issue is the decision of Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer to assure survival of Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government by a sophisticated tactic of "non-opposition" in the Chamber of Deputies. Berlinguer has had the P.C.I. Deputies (227 of 630) and Senators (116 of 315) abstain on key votes, thus lending implicit Communist support to unpopular government programs, including the stangata (sting)-the tough austerity measures that, among other things, have hiked the price of gasoline by 25% (bringing it to $2.25 a gal. for super) and increased postal, electric and telephone rates. Communist leaders argue that...
...economists calculate that every day off represents a loss of about $475 million in national production. That is intolerable in an economy beset by a 17% inflation rate, about 7% unemployment and a huge balance of payments deficit. So, when he announced a new austerity program recently, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti included in it a measure to skip two civil and five religious holidays (among them: St. Joseph's Day on March 19, Republic Day on June 2, St. Peter and St. Paul Day on June 29) when they occur next year. Five of the seven days will...