61.   Leading a coalition with a comfortable majority in both the chamber of deputies and senate, Berlusconi appears to offer Italians that rare thing, stable government.

62.   Prime Minister John Bruton led a coalition including all the main opposition parties in favor of introducing divorce in Ireland, the only European country where it is illegal.

63.   Previous efforts by the two conservative leaders failed due to a personal rivlary between Ciller and Yilmaz who had quarrelled over who would lead any coalition.