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...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...
...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...