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...1970s Italy. If the Communists emerge from the June 20th parliamentary elections with a claim to national power, the fundamental cause will be the serious erosion of the Christian Democrats in the modern Italy that they very largely created. Today the party is maligned and ridiculed as never before-and from every corner of Italian society. Urban youths rail against it as sclerotic and establishmentarian. Women, swept up in a drive for legal abortion and other rights, have turned away from it as unresponsive to their needs. Middle-class Italians, once the party's backbone, grumble about its ineffectiveness...
...Johnson in a tight Democratic senatorial primary. Six days after the election, it looked as if Stevenson had won by 113 votes of the almost 1 million cast. But then one precinct of Parr-bossed Jim Wells County reported that it had discovered 202 ballots that had not been counted before-and 201 of them were for Johnson. Recriminations flew, but the Democratic state executive committee upheld L.B.J.'s nomination-and soon thereafter the last-minute ballots mysteriously disappeared. Johnson went on to win the general election...
...lives were endangered was fabricated subsequent to the event." The book is partly a collection of pieces about the shootings which Stone wrote late last year for the New York Review of Books, with a special report by the Akron Beacon-Journal, a summary of the FBI report-never published before-and the text of the original grand jury report appended...
...sheer drama, few periods in modern history can match the years just before-and after the death of Joseph Stalin. It was a time of Byzantine intrigues, some engineered by the old dictator, others conceived and carried out behind his back. It was a time of brutal purges and bitter battles within the Kremlin hierarchy that led to Nikita Khrushchev's startling "destalinization" speech at the 20th Party Congress in 1956. This week the former Soviet Premier, who emerged from those years as the Kremlin's new boss, provides the only first-person account of those fateful struggles...
...Harvard has never made economic policy in support of the workers before-and Harvard buys a lot of lettuce," he added...