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Craxi's actions also alienated someone else: his Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini. The leader of the small (29 members in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies) Republican Party within Craxi's five-party coalition, Spadolini had grown increasingly unhappy with Craxi's foreign policy in the Middle East, which in the Defense Minister's view was increasingly pro-P.L.O. and ( excessively anti-Israel. But what bothered Spadolini even more was that Craxi made the decision to release Abbas without consulting him. Incensed, the Defense Minister announced in advance that he would not attend a Cabinet meeting that Craxi...
Returning to Italy from a visit to the U.S. last week, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini charged that "a terrorist multinational has already been formed in France capable of striking throughout Europe." Spadolini lashed out against the French government for sheltering terrorists "in the name of an anachronistic and self-destructive concept of the right of asylum." According to unofficial sources in Rome, at least 270 suspected or convicted Italian terrorists are being granted haven in France...
...time of rising tensions in Britain and The Netherlands over plans by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to continue deploying medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. The only other encouraging sign of Western resolve last week came in Italy, where Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the first 16 cruise missiles at Comiso in Sicily were operational...
...gave their word to spare Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus risking return fire, while Abu Mousa pledged not to invade. Nonetheless, rumors floated through the city all week that Arafat was about to flee. On Thursday, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the missile launcher Orsa and the destroyer Intrepido stood ready off the Lebanese coast to evacuate Arafat...
...spokesman said that each contingent in the multinational force must "take its own decisions about self-defense." In Italy's coalition government, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi showed concern about the U.S. intervention at Suq al Gharb, while Christian Democratic Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti and Republican Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini supported it. In Paris, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson criticized the U.S. naval action, saying it was "not the best method" of solving the crisis. Added Cheysson: "If the Americans want to take the place of the Israelis, that is their responsibility, not ours." Three days later, however, after a barrage...