Cossiga's new Cabinet
For years the prevailing wisdom in Rome has held that no effective Italian government could be formed without the support of the powerful Communists. Last week, with an alacrity that was unusual for Rome politics, Premier Francesco Cossiga, 51, put the lie to that notion: the Christian Democratic leader not only succeeded in forming a surprisingly solid-looking government but pushed the Communists into outright opposition.
Cossiga's new government, the 39th since the end of World War II, revives the old center-left alliance that ruled Italy for more than a decade after 1962. The three-party coalition Cabinet is made up...
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