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Some new and-for Italy-daring campaign maneuvers are being introduced in this election. To offset the same kind of voter distrust that has generated anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead...
...Communists did even better: they shrewdly lined up candidates who might help offset anti-Communist criticism from NATO, the Common Market and the Vatican. One of their Senate candidates is Nino Pasti, 67, a retired four-star general who formerly served as NATO's Southern Europe Air Force Commander. "They are fully reliable," insisted Pasti of the Communists. "It's a democratic party; I am convinced of that." Common Market Commissioner Altiero Spinelli, 68, meanwhile, became a surprise Communist choice for the Chamber of Deputies. Spinelli, a former Communist and political prisoner under Mussolini, became his nation...
Ebert said he has already written to the New England Journal in an effort to offset the effect of Davis's article...
...Argentine foreign debts of about $1 billion will be due at the end of May, and it is crucial that foreign creditors cooperate in extending repayment terms. Emilio Mondelli, the Peronist finance minister, had repeatedly pleaded with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to borrow an additional $300 million to offset the country's trade imbalance. This request had repeatedly not been granted...
Reagan does have a tendency to speak glibly of defense matters. He has said that the U.S. should exploit its lead in technology to offset Soviet numerical superiority. No one could quarrel with that aim-indeed, it is a basic premise of U.S. strategy. But Reagan went on to suggest using the cruise missile to counter Soviet tanks. Still under development, the cruise missile is no battlefield weapon; armed with a nuclear or conventional warhead, it will be launched from aircraft or naval vessels against strategic targets up to 2,000 miles away...