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Show of Unity. Later, Nixon held court at the residence of the U.S. ambassador, seeing at hourly intervals West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Mariano Rumor. France's new President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, did not attend the NATO meeting; he remained in Paris to conclude a $5 billion trade deal with Iran (see THE WORLD). The Europeans were happy-if matter-of-factly realistic-about the Brussels session. The U.S. got a public show of Atlantic unity before Moscow, and the allies got both a continued commitment that U.S. troops...
...Raphael for Pope Clement VII, provided the setting in which the Medici Pope wheedled, wheeled and dealed. Last week, that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama's splendid isolation for a two-day summit. Medicis and Borgias would have enjoyed the infighting and cross-dealing...
Involved in the talks were the four parties that have participated in Rumor's most recent coalitions: the Christian Democrats, whose internal factions range from right to left; the Socialists from the left; the centrist Social Democrats; and the small, slightly leftist Republicans, who dropped out of the Coalition last March as a protest over its fiscal irresponsibility...
...member of any coalition. "The Socialists want their wife in the government and their little girl friend in the opposition," sniffed Social Democrat Leader Flavio Orlandi. "If they insist on our blessing, we're not going to give it." The Socialists finally relented on that demand, and Premier Rumor ultimately obtained agreement on a vague statement promising increased unofficial consultation with the Communists...
...agreement, and probable parliamentary approval of it this week, Italy's troubles were far from over. For one thing, Christian Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...