Reagan Calls Off Italy State Visit
President Reagan will cancel a state visit to Italy in June because of the Italian political crisis but still intends to travel to the country then, Administration sources said Friday.
The decision was made this week as Italian President Francesco Cossiga dissolved the Parliament and called national elections for June 14, four days after the scheduled economic summit of leading western industrial nations in Venice.
Officials said the state visit would have been awkward because Reagan would have been meeting with members of a caretaker government that would soon be out of office.
They said Reagan still intends to travel to Rome on June 3-7. He will meet with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican as planned. But, instead of the state visit, Reagan may travel earlier than planned to Venice, where the summit begins June 7.
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