The World - News from July 10, 1989
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President Francesco Cossiga gave Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti a mandate to create Italy’s 49th post-World War II government. Italy has been without a government since May 19, when Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita resigned after criticism of his leadership by the No. 2 party in the governing coalition, the Socialists. Andreotti, like De Mita, belongs to the Christian Democrats, who have dominated Italian politics since World War II. The De Mita coalition apparently fell because of jockeying by the Socialists, led by former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi.
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