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Since World War II, Italy has had just eight national elections but 43 different governments, so many that they are now referred to in shorthand, with the name of the Prime Minister and Roman numerals: De Gasperi VIII, Moro III and, most recently, Fanfani V. Italy has a system in which the exercise of normal executive power regularly unravels coalitions, but in which each new government is a virtual clone of the last. "Most campaigns have issues," says Paolo Garimberti of the Turin-based daily La Stampa. "Here we have no issues at all. It's not a question...
DIED. Pietro Nenni, 88, Italian Socialist who, with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance...
...cannot put the economic plan across, then no Italian politician can. Though he is one of the West's lesser known political leaders, he is one of its most effective. Now 59, he entered politics in 1944 as a political apprentice to the late Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi, the most respected of Italian leaders. Observes an admirer: "He was De Gasperi's tape recorder. He remembered everything and erased nothing." Andreotti has vast experience in government; he has held virtually every portfolio, including three previous turns as Prime Minister...