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...coalition depended on Socialist votes in Parliament to give it a majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...
...most disconcerting prospect is that Leone will give up trying, dissolve Parliament and call for early elections, which normally would not occur until the spring of 1977. That would please the Socialists-who hope thereby to seize center stage from the Communists -but no one else. The Christian Democrats, who hoped to work on some internal reforms at a March congress, have not yet improved their image enough to face confidently an early test at the polls. The Communists are still consolidating their regional gains of last June, and believe that elections at this point could undermine the quiet beginnings...
London saw the hard-line policy as a necessary risk. With public morale and confidence sagging, Wilson wanted to present the image of an angry, fed-up government ready to take all measures necessary to contain the violence. This is particularly crucial since Parliament this week begins an important debate on the Ulster situation. The Government does not believe it can impose a political settlement in Ulster, since all previous attempts have failed. But it is prepared to support an emergency interim coalition government of Catholics and Protestants for the province during the present security crisis...
...parsimonious image. Eager to avoid social unrest, the dictator's economic counselors allowed officially sanctioned unions (sindicatos) to win wage increases-30% in 1974 and 28% in 1975-that far exceeded government guidelines. Spain's new Finance Minister, Juan Miguel Villar Mir, recently confessed to the Spanish Parliament, "In 1975 we created our inflation entirely by ourselves...
...voluminous Life. Biographer Ronald Clark presents the full range of Russell's behavior that would not do: the grandson of a former Prime Minister, standing for Parliament in 1907 as the first candidate of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies; going to prison for pacifist activities during World War I; and leaving a wife behind in England in 1921 while he went to China for a year with another woman -Dora Black, the future second...