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...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
...decisions," said one of his aides. "When the foreign ministers meet, they take a few. We must get together the men who really control power in their countries, the heads of government, if we are to take the difficult decisions that face us." Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms do not yet function properly. But it exists, and realizes its duty to exist, for itself and for the rest of the world. What prevails is not a blind optimism, but a confidence which is nourished...
...deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who has three times before served as Premier (1963-68), to see if he would have better luck...
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...economic reforms are even extending to Italy's bloated bureaucracy. Deputies last week debated legislation to eliminate many useless, semi-autonomous state agencies. No one knows how many there are. "They are like the stars in the night sky," says Liberal Deputy Aldo Bozzi, whose own estimate is 55,000. There is, for instance, the "agency for the assistance of war orphans," the last of whom is by now 30 years old, and the "agency for the world exposition of 1942," which was never held because of World...