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...stunned as everyone else by an August crisis, Spadolini at week's end called a final, two-hour meeting of his Cabinet, which formally dissolved the government. He then visited President Sandro Pertini, 85, to announce the decision. Pertini is expected to confer this week with political leaders of all parties before offering the mandate to form a new government
...Paris Opera and a son et lumière fireworks display. The President will meet with the Pope in the Vatican's Papal Apartments, five days after the Pontiff's return from his trip to Britain, and then fly by helicopter to meet with President Sandro Pertini at the Quirinale Palace, built in 1574 as a summer residence for Pope Gregory VIII. At the invitation of Queen Elizabeth, Reagan will be the first U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson to be a royal house guest. Another first will be a televised white-tie dinner for 160 guests...
...pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block the Siberian natural gas pipeline and begun to pursue arms control negotiations. Italian President Pertini, whose country is constructing NATO's first cruise missile base, has no substantial problems to raise with Reagan and is eager to repay the warm welcome he received in Washington last March...
...Barbados party was about three times the size of the 110-person entourage that the leader of the other superpower, Leonid Brezhnev, took to Bonn last November. Leaders of other important countries make do with even less pomp. The standard for official modesty might belong to President Sandro Pertini of Italy, who, to be sure, fills a largely ceremonial office. When he came to Washington on a state visit last month, he took a chartered Alitalia jet and brought along a retinue of only 15. - By George J. Church...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Barry Kalb, Italy's President Pertini stressed his country's commitment to the U.S. and to the Atlantic Alliance, while strongly criticizing the attitude of some of his Western European colleagues. Excerpts...