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...rising labor costs. "I'm still only a baby, but I'm not afraid of falling down," said Spadolini. "The right way to conserve power is to exercise it." It was an auspicious start for the bachelor, 56, leader of the small Republican Party and the first non-Christian Democrat since the war to head an Italian government...
Surprisingly, it was Spadolini, 56, a former political science professor and journalist with a reputation for rectitude, who was chosen by President Sandro Pertini as the next candidate for Prime Minister-only the third non-Christian Democrat in 35 years asked to form a government. The first two failed. Despite the esteem in which he is held, he was not given a much better chance to succeed than Forlani. Whatever the outcome, though, the new mandate virtually guaranteed that the crisis would drag on, as repercussions from the Masonic affair shake the nation's Establishment...
Armerding fears some future court battle over the school's forthright policy of religious discrimination, since Wheaton consistently excludes atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and, indeed, any non-Christian teachers or students. So far the college has escaped Washington's wrath because it gets no federal or state aid for either capital or operating costs. But its students receive $4 million a year in Government grants, loans and loan guarantees. Since two-thirds of Wheaton's revenues are from tuition and fees, "it would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace" such student aid, says Admissions Director Stuart...
...predominantly non-Christian university, FCA members value the support the FCA gives them. But they also agree that elitism--a holier-than-thou attitude toward their teammates--is a potential problem...
Another prominent candidate is Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 67, who leads the office on relations with non-Christian religions and is the most widely traveled member of the college. If the next Pope is chosen from outside Italy, at least a possibility now that 27 of 117 voting cardinals are non-Italian, Holland's shrewd primate, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, appears to have a clear edge. With two decades of experience in the Vatican Curia, he knows the Italians well...