Word: sandro
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...days following his dramatic rescue by a team of Italian antiterrorist commandos on Jan. 28 have been a whirlwind of debriefings, press conferences and meetings with heads of state in both Italy and the U.S. Before flying to Washington for breakfast with Reagan, the general lunched with Italian President Sandro Pertini, then met with Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini at Rome's Chigi Palace. Throughout, Dozier handled himself like a practiced politician, showing no signs of the anxiety or depression that so often afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped...
...biggest party, the Christian Democrats, were unacceptable to Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, whose party made spectacular gains last month in local elections across the country. For their part, the Christian Democrats would have refused to participate in any government headed by the ambitious Craxi. Under the circumstances, President Sandro Pertini wisely turned to Spadolini, a former political science professor and journalist with high intelligence, a well-known capacity for work and an impressive record as an administrator...
Surprisingly, it was Spadolini, 56, a former political science professor and journalist with a reputation for rectitude, who was chosen by President Sandro Pertini as the next candidate for Prime Minister-only the third non-Christian Democrat in 35 years asked to form a government. The first two failed. Despite the esteem in which he is held, he was not given a much better chance to succeed than Forlani. Whatever the outcome, though, the new mandate virtually guaranteed that the crisis would drag on, as repercussions from the Masonic affair shake the nation's Establishment...
...could be the result of some monstrous hoax, the effects were devastating. They began with the abrupt resignation of Justice Minister Adolfo Sarti after he was said to be associated with the secret group, and concluded three days later with Forlani handing in his own resignation to President Sandro Pertini at the Quirinal Palace. It left Pertini with the task of either finding a potential Prime Minister capable of forming a new government-the 41st since 1946-or calling unwanted early elections...
...were no disaster contingency plans and few resources for rapidly deploying rescue teams to the mountain hamlets. The necessary soldiers, firemen, medical supplies and heavy equipment had to be trucked in from military bases hundreds of miles to the north. "Beyond question, there have been serious official shortcomings," President Sandro Pertini charged during a grim, surprisingly outspoken address on television at midweek. "Those guilty of these failures must be made...