Italian new Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema (C) smiles as he poses with (L to R) new Minister of Health Rosy Bindi, Institutional Reform Giuliano Amato, Labour and Southern Affairs Antonio Bassolino and Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (R) at the Quirinale Palace in Rome October 21. D'Alema, an ex-communist, formed Italy's 56th government since 1945, bringing Marxist ministers into office for the first time in Half a century.

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