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...Italy and Germany. Five members of the far right National Alliance hold seats in the new Italian government. Skinheads decked with swastikas continue to terrorize foreigners in Germany, Italy, Britain and Spain. While the number of neo-Nazis and neofascists in Western Europe remains minuscule, ugly pictures of straight-arm salutes, street hooligans and racial hatred are haunting reminders that the old ideologies are not dead...
...elsewhere in Europe, the skinheads in Germany have an impact on fringe politics. While far-right parties, such as the Republikaners, eschew violence and discourage stiff-arm salutes, they profit politically from the < undercurrent of anti-immigrant and nationalist sentiment stirred up by the neo-Nazis. The Republikaners have scored as high as 15% in local elections, and charismatic party leader Franz Schonhuber, who served in Hitler's SS, is a member of the European Parliament...
...Said a government spokesman last week: "At the moment, we have no willingness to have contact with the so- called government in Kigali, which consists of a gang of murderers." Neither French troops nor French-equipped African troops are acceptable to the mainly Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Front: France helped arm and train their opponents, the Hutu forces of the late President Juvenal Habyarimana...
...political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political. If I had the power to arm all 400,000 members, I would be in the palace having juice and giving interviews...
...paint and gardens. She was ecstatic to find the original woodcuts for wallpaper ordered in the early days. New panels were printed. She relished the great view down toward the Mall from the Truman balcony. "This is what it is all about," she told a visitor, sweeping her arm from the Washington Monument to the Jefferson Memorial. "This is what these men fight so hard...