Word: andreotti
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Benign as the experience has been so far in this fiscal wonderland, the present Italian government is determined to blow the whistle. Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti has framed a budget strategy that aims at balancing the books by 1993 through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. Similar targets have been set and missed before, but this time a new sense of urgency comes from the danger that Italians may start sending their savings abroad when capital movements in the European Community are freed next year. Bank of Italy Governor Carlo Ciampi warns that "a change in the handling...
Foreign Ministers of the NATO countries meeting with Shultz in Brussels on Thursday seemed less than reassured. Leaving the session, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti admitted "there is fear of global denuclearization without adequate countermeasures," although his government made it plain that it supported the new approach. A French TV news analyst summed up a strong current of opinion in his country: "Zero option, yes. Double zero and triple zero, no." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during her visit to Moscow three weeks ago, told Gorbachev that a "world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous...
Craxi's most probable successor is Christian Democrat Giulio Andreotti, who has already been Prime Minister five times. An Andreotti government, though, may be short-lived. Many Italians expect that elections will be held earlier than the June 1988 date now scheduled...
...Andreotti! Andreotti!" The word spread from table to table in restaurants near the Italian Parliament, as lunching politicians learned that President Francesco Cossiga had selected Giulio Andreotti, 67, to form Italy's 45th government since World War II. The diners had been pondering the government's future since Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi resigned as leader of the five-party coalition three weeks...
...Andreotti, a Christian Democrat who served as Foreign Minister under Craxi and five times earlier as Prime Minister, had not been considered a front- running candidate. The biggest problem he faces in his effort to put together a coalition that can win a parliamentary vote of confidence is the opposition of the Socialist Party. Within an hour of Andreotti's appointment, the Socialists issued a statement opposing...