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...function defectively. The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals." Last week, with a mountainous heap of unsolved problems plaguing the nation, Italy's national government was running one step ahead of catastrophe. After seven unsettling weeks of government by caretaker, Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor finally put together a coalition Cabinet that was acceptable to the same grouping of center and left-wing parties that has ruled Italy, after a fashion, for the past seven years. It was the third government under Rumor, a 53-year-old bachelor and former schoolteacher, and Italy...
...Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with, if only because of their strength at the polls (they regularly command one-quarter of the national vote), became simply the Socialist Party. This split in the coalition forced Rumor to dissolve his entire government...
When the former coalition members failed to agree on how to regroup. Rumor and his Christian Democrats were left operating a minority one-party, or monocolore, government. After a terrorist bomb killed 16 people in a Milan bank last December, Rumor decided that it was time to share responsibility with a few other parties. What he thought would be a simple bit of Cabinetmaking, however, turned into an exercise in frustration...
...three weeks, Rumor struggled unsuccessfully to strike a compromise that would satisfy all parties. He failed. Aldo Moro and Amintore Fanfani, two former Premiers and the current contenders to succeed Saragat as President of Italy, also gave it a try. Finally, Saragat persuaded Rumor to try once more, and this time the Cabinetmaker succeeded. It was not that the other parties liked his proposals. It was just that they feared the alternative-a costly general election three years ahead of schedule...
...Cabinet that Rumor escorted to the Palazzo Quirinale last week to meet Saragat is unlikely to improve the situation. It is the least government that could have been provided rather than the most. Moreover, no one expects it to last much longer than the regional elections scheduled for late May. The odds are that at least one party in the coalition will conclude from these elections that the conditions are ripe for it to seize center stage. Then it will walk out of Italy's 28th postwar government, and begin agitating self-servingly for a 29th...