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...tells how he first became aware last year that he was under attack from "a squadron of enraged Amazons, an honor guard of revolutionary vaginas." He admits to naiveté in visualizing his female adversaries as "thin college ladies with eyeglasses, no-nonsense features, mouths thin as bologna slices, a babe in one arm, a hatchet in the other, gray eyes bright with balefire." When he protests to chic Radical Chick Gloria Steinem that he doesn't know what Women's Lib has against him. she tells him tartly: "You might try reading your books some day." Manhattan...
...Communist bosses in Warsaw came from party spokesmen in Western Europe-most notably from the Red leaders of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region. Guido Fanti, the Communist president of the region, rose before his 50-member council to deplore "the tragic events of Poland." The Communist mayor of Bologna, Renato Zangheri, expressed "the strongest condemnation of the use of arms" to suppress the revolt...
...Communists skillfully capitalized on the region's natural advantages. Emilia-Romagna has long been Italy's richest agricultural region. For the past 20 years, it has led the nation in industrial growth; thanks to an influx of new plants and fat payrolls, the per capita income in Bologna (more than $1,600 a year) is rising at a rate of better than 9% a year. Businessmen find that it is one place where they can count on local Communist politicians to keep obstreperous left-wing labor unions in line...
People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red mayor of Bologna, Zangheri has insisted on keeping his University of Bologna professorship, on wearing his academic tweeds, and on making over much of the municipal government in his eclectic but thoughtful style. Among the 17th century frescoes in the Palazzo D'Accursio, he has hung a favorite Jackson...
Zangheri's heresies-he regularly chews out the Soviets for suppressing intellectual freedom-might leave voters confused about whether he is really a Communist at all. But it hardly matters; on ballots, the party identifies itself as the Two Towers, after a Bologna landmark. The word "Communist" never even appears...