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...weeks earlier, a gang of 200 Nazi-skins marched through the northern Italian city of Vicenza shouting racist slogans and waving banners with swastika-like emblems. Mainstream political leaders expressed outrage, but not Teodoro Buontempo, 48, a self-proclaimed fascist elected to Parliament in March on the ticket of the National Alliance, the successor to the party founded by followers of Benito Mussolini. In an interview with the Turin daily La Stampa, Buontempo said, "I would send them into the midst of society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci...
Fini joined politicians in condemning skinhead violence. He said the - marchers in Vicenza should be "put in coal mines so they can break rocks with their heads." When told that his National Alliance colleague Buontempo thought highly of the demonstrators, Fini simply said, "Buontempo is mistaken...
...municipal elections last June, Italy's self-confident Communists won almost 34% of the vote, compared with just above 35% for the Christian Democrats. Since then, the Christian Democrats, though thoroughly aroused to their plight, scarcely seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions of his countrymen: "We've tried everything else; we might as well try the Communists." Gianni Agnelli, head of the giant Fiat company and Italy's foremost industrialist, describes the Christian Democratic government today as "confused" and "incapable...
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