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...five parties in Rome's center-left coalition government all support the Atlanticist foreign policy. So does the powerful Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). Since the collapse of the "historic compromise," a power-sharing agreement with the ruling Christian Democrats, the Communists have sought to win votes by putting distance between themselves and the Soviet Union. Thus the P.C.I, has criticized the deployment of Soviet SS-20s and expressed only token opposition to the installation of U.S. missiles in Italy...
Mitterrand's strong position has come as a surprise, mainly because his views on France's defense have not always been consistent during his 35-year political career. A confirmed "Atlanticist" who be lieved in having a common Western de fense, he voted against De Gaulle's development of an independent nuclear deterrent. The Common Program Mitter rand signed with the Communist Party in 1972 also rejected the force de frappe. Not until 1977 did Hernu, then a close adviser of Mitterrand's, persuade him that a nuclear force was a requisite for a modern state...
NATO. While Mitterrand talked as an Atlanticist during the campaign, he is unlikely to return France to NATO's integrated military command. He is committed to maintaining the independent French nuclear deterrent and will probably not reduce defense spending drastically...
...should he try to apply persuasion or pressure, Carter may get a frosty response from the Thatcher administration. Gone will be the cosy rapport Carter shared with Jim Callaghan, who was very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...
FOREIGN SECRETARY: James Callaghan, 61, an avuncular pragmatist who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in earlier Wilson administrations. A firm Atlanticist and NATO supporter, Callaghan is skeptical about the Common Market but not hostile to it. In Middle East affairs, he will be less ardently Arabist than were Heath and Sir Alec Douglas-Home...