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Biagi and D'Antona were both dedicated reformers, passionately committed to modernizing Italy's labor laws. Biagi was one of the most articulate proponents of loosening up Italy's notoriously tight labor market. He had spearheaded the government's efforts to phase out Article 18, a measure that allows unjustly fired workers to get their jobs back rather than settle for financial damages. Labor leaders fiercely defend Article 18, which they say protects workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that...
Last week's assassination was a virtual replay of the still unsolved slaying three years ago in Rome of another labor ministry consultant, Massimo D'Antona. The profiles of the victims are strikingly similar: both men divided their time between the professor's lectern and the government negotiating table; both were well-known and respected within government and academic circles but virtually unknown to the general public. "Easy targets," noted Donatella Della Porta, a terrorist expert at the University of Florence. Police even believe the same pistol was used to kill both...
...free those for whom the Government cannot make a convincing argument for continued detention. For the innocents among the imprisoned Cubans and for their supporters, Judge Shoob's order is good news indeed. "The Government was doing nothing, while these people were sitting in a cage," complains Tomas Antona, a founder of the Atlanta Committee on Behalf of Cuban Prisoners. Adds Rafael Fernandez-Roque, a Cuban still awaiting his freedom: "That man has done what we never dreamed the INS could do. We are all grateful...
Lithuanians were uncertain last week whether a dictator had seized their government or not. Overnight, Conservatives, headed by onetime President Antona Smetona and a former Tsarist Russian officer, Major Plekhavicius, seized and arrested President Kasimir Grinius and Premier Nicholas Slezevicius of Lithuania, both Socialists...
Next day the Conservatives freed President Grinius, and forced him to call Professor Augustine Valdemaras (Conservative) to the Premiership. Antona Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...
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