Rove, Karl Christian, 1950–, U.S. political consultant and government official, b. Denver, Colo. Politically active in high school, he joined College Republicans while at the Univ. of Utah and...

Aylwin Azócar, Patricio, 1918–, president of Chile (1990–94). He was a founder of the Christian Democratic party in 1957 and served as a senator (1964–73). In 1989, he became the spokesman for...

Robertson, Pat (Marion Gordon Robertson), 1930–, American evangelist and politician, b. Lexington, Va. The son of U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, he is a graduate of Yale Law School and an o...

De Jong, Petrus Josef Sietse, 1915–, Dutch naval officer and politician. Having entered the royal navy in 1931, he served as a submarine commander in World War II and rose in the navy after th...

Strauss, Franz Josef, 1915–88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the Christia...

Gronchi, Giovanni, 1887–1978, Italian political leader. He entered parliament in 1919 as a member of the new Popular party. When Benito Mussolini seized power in 1922 and formed a coalition mi...

San Marino, officially Republic of San Marino, republic (2005 est. pop. 28,900), 24 sq mi (62 sq km), in the Apennines near the Adriatic Sea, SW of Rimini, N central Italy. It is the world's s...

De Gasperi, Alcide, 1881–1954, Italian premier and a founder of the Christian Democratic party. Born in the Trentino—then under Austria—he represented Italian irredentists in the Austrian parl...

Balkenende, Jan Peter, 1956–, Dutch political leader, prime minister of the Netherlands (2002–), b. Kapelle. He attended the Free Univ. of Amsterdam, earning a doctorate in law in 1991. A memb...

Bondevik, Kjell Magne, 1947–, Norwegian political leader, b. Molde. He studied at the Norway's Free Faculty of Theology and was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1979. A member of the Christian ...