Word: pertini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French insist that it is also essential for Western officials to remain in Tehran to support Iranian moderates like Banisadr. The Italians feel that their diplomats in Iran are particularly useful because they supposedly have clout with Iranian radicals. Italy's President Alessandro Pertini supported persecuted Iranian students during the Shah's reign...
...nailed together swiftly, ending a government crisis of only 16 days, one of the briefest on record. The speed was also due to President Alessandro Pertini, 83. Following the collapse of Cossiga's fragile minority "government of truce" last month, he urgently summoned Cossiga, even though it was Sunday, and asked him to try again to form a government. "The unemployed don't stop worrying on Sunday," explained Pertini, "nor do the Red Brigades stop shooting...
...Socialists announced that they would no longer keep it afloat by abstaining on key votes.* Cossiga did not bother to go through the formality of a vote of confidence. After a brief parliamentary debate, he routinely visited the Quirinale Palace to submit his resignation; just as routinely, President Alessandro Pertini asked him to stay on as caretaker...
...week's end, President Pertini asked Cossiga to try to form a new government. He accepted the mandate with an understandable lack of enthusiasm. "As of today, no governing formula has emerged," he had told aides. "This is strictly a game of chance." Whether or not he succeeds, the three major parties will undoubtedly find some way of avoiding an alternative that none favors: new national elections. Both the Socialists and Christian Democrats are divided on the issue of Communists in the government. Meanwhile, Berlinguer's party is showing signs of discord over his moderate policies and charges...
...demonstrations in several Western capitals, where governments expressed outrage at the treatment of Sakharov-as did a number of Communist leaders. The White House said that the Soviet action was "a blow to the aspiration of all mankind to establish respect for human rights." Italy's President Alessandro Pertini sent a cable of protest to Brezhnev. The West German government demanded that the Sakharovs be allowed to return to Moscow. France's president of the National Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, cut short his official visit to the Soviet Union and returned to Paris in indignation over the exile...