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...being the country's largest party but only a junior member of the government coalition. Analysts in Italy were asking last week if the Christian Democrats would now challenge Socialist Craxi for the Prime Minister's post or if they would seek the presidency, held by Socialist Sandro Pertini, whose term ends next month...
...look like Claudia Cardinale. (Or spend time with someone who does.) Italy's President Sandro Pertini recently told a group of journalists that she is the living actress "I admire most in the movies." But despite their leader's enthusiasm, Italian audiences and critics have had a more mixed reaction to the star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali...
...President, would you like to go skiing with me?" Truthfully, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 87, does not like skiing much. But the caller was an old and persuasive friend, Pope John Paul II, 64. So last week, by government jet and helicopter, the two were off for a brief ski trip and, said the Pope, "a little fresh air" on the slopes of the Adamello mountain range (which had been considerately cleared of other tourists). Sportily dressed in blue pants and windbreaker, sunglasses and red boots, John Paul made his first known ski outing since becoming Pope six years...
...attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi was trying to cobble together a five-party center-left coalition. Joining the Socialists would be the Republicans, Social Democrats, Liberals and, most notably, the Christian Democrats, traditional masters of the Italian political scene, who had tacitly agreed to step aside...
Legally, John Paul can do nothing. Only Italian President Alessandro Pertini can order Agca's release, but the Italian government observes a strict policy of not negotiating with kidnapers. The motives remain as mysterious as the method. The kidnapers have not demanded money, nor have they spiced their messages with ideological rantings or political rationales. Instead, they have identified themselves only as "people who are interested in Agca's liberation." Some Romans speculate that they may be agents from Bulgaria or even the Soviet Union, the countries Agca has implicated in the papal assassination attempt. The kidnapers...