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...against the Italian Communist Party, which has a membership of 1,500,000 and won 27% of the vote in last year's election. The party has chosen to march to real power by proving itself effective and responsible. Communist mayors preside over a number of cities, including Bologna (pop. 500,000), Italy's best-run metropolis. Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer has denounced the far-leftists as "objective fascists"-just about the worst insult one follower of Marx can hurl at another...
...takes only a handful of well-qualified Americans annually. But there are several schools that do welcome U.S. medical students-if they can master the local language. The Belgian universities at Brussels and Louvain have a total of more than 500 Americans. Some 800 attend the Italian university at Bologna; the medical school at Rome has 175 more, many of whom make their presence known every Thanksgiving Day by playing in a football game that has become known as the Pasta Bowl. Mexico's Autonomous University of Guadalajara has the largest contingent; it numbers 1,300 gringos among...
...March on tours. Four days in Rome are offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...
...also tries to portray himself as a friend of the little man. In speech after speech McGovern says that "there is no reason why a Wall Street banker can deduct his $20 martini luncheon and the average working guy in this country can't deduct the cost of his bologna sandwich...
...POLITICAL atmosphere reeks with the Watergate scandal, "cocktails and bologna sandwiches," ITT-Nixon fumblings, Eagleton disorders, subdued Agnewian imagery, campaign staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this the most "issue-oriented" campaign of the 20th century. Yet clarity, precision, and in-depth discussion of issues has been notably absent from the campaign...