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Italy: UKA Rome despatch (“Italy Elections: June 1983”) [reasons for shock DC vote decline, possible collapse of De Mita attempt to make DC a classic centre right party] [declassified Jan 2010]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: FCO33/6660 f51
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 17pp
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (arms control), European Union (general), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), British relations with Italy