Word: sandro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Cup victory provided an outlet for celebration which Italy had been sorely lacking. Eighty-five-year-old President Sandro Pertini called it the greatest day for Italy since he had assumed office seven years before...
...dangerous. No apology can be adequate. My conduct reflects badly on the Harvard community, of which I am proud to be a part, and I am extremely sorry. I can only hope that my embarrassment and remorse may serve as an example to restrain others from behaving so foolishly. Sandro A. Carella...
...strike, but the latest parliamentary high-wire act in Rome had even seasoned observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare and the mandate to form Italy's 43rd postwar government was the Christian Democratic...
Stung by the public outcry, the government moved with uncharacteristic swiftness. Two days after the memorial service, President Sandro Pertini signed a decree that invested sweeping investigative powers in the newly created post of high commissioner against organized crime. By midweek the Parliament had passed a set of anti-Mafia laws that Dalla Chiesa had pleaded for, without success, prior to his death...
...Craxi miscalculated. Interrupting his vacation in the Dolomites, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 85, rushed to Rome and asked Spadolini to form a new government. A lifelong Socialist, Pertini then reportedly reminded Craxi that in Italian politics the party that precipitates early elections usually suffers the most at the ballot box. Ultimately, Craxi appears to have been influenced by an equally persuasive fear: that the Communists would abstain in key parliamentary votes, allowing a minority government without the Socialists to stay in power...