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Only now is Italy beginning to acquire some of these tools. The strong-arm tactics of the Fascists, who disregarded constitutional rights and democratic principles to jail suspected mobsters, succeeded in quashing the Mob for a time. But memories of that dictatorship left Italy with a postwar constitution designed to...
The encounter this time was far friendlier than at Lexington and Concord. In one of the biggest cross-border deals to date, British Airways agreed to acquire a 44% equity stake in USAir for $750 million. If approved, the transaction will result in the largest airline alliance ever and could...
The cable television industry has long eyed telephone companies warily, and now the Federal Communications Commission has given it ample reason for that concern. The FCC has granted phone companies the right to carry TV programming into millions of homes. The controversial decision is a major victory for phone operators...
In Washington Irving's classic folktale, Rip Van Winkle awakes from a 20-year nap to find his youth behind him, the world radically changed and his assumptions hopelessly outmoded. Schizophrenics roused to reality by clozapine endure much the same jolt. Re-entry is not merely a question of catching...
Something ominous was forgotten over the past two years as President F.W. de Klerk went about burying apartheid and accepting praise from grateful citizens and foreign statesmen: even more than in the past, South Africa's 5 million whites and 28.5 million blacks were living in separate worlds. Whites, of...