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Franco bitterly reflected that if he had been born twelve years earlier, he would have found it relatively simple to do the same. It was his dearest wish to have a small apartment in Calabria; what else was there after you had installed three color television sets, two refrigerators, and all the other necessities? What else would you dream about after each member of your family had acquired his own single-color, single-shape Eurocar? But a lot of Europe's beaches had been acquired by holiday camps, and seaside property had become hideously expensive. If only Father...
...ideology and an obdurate religious feud produced violence in two European countries last week. In Italy, neo-Fascist youth gangs shattered windows at the University of Milan and painted on a wall in Varese: "Long live the Duce!" They were also accused of spearheading the renewed rioting in Reggio Calabria (lower left) over whether the town is to be chosen over Catanzaro as the capital of the region. In Catanzaro, they were blamed for a grenade attack on anti-Fascist demonstrators, which killed one and injured 13. The Catanzaro incident in turn set off demonstrations and rioting in Naples, Genoa...
EXCEPT for the unmistakably modern odor of tear gas and burning rubber, the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria could have passed for one of the fortified city-states that made up Italy before the nation was unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that...
...Revolt. The revolt of Reggio began last July, after Rome passed out the political fruits of the new decentralization program. Under the plan, 15 governmental regions were created and given their own administrative councils and a measure of local autonomy. As the biggest city (pop. 160,000) in sere Calabria, Reggio seemed the obvious choice for the seat of the new regional government. The Reggini looked forward to the magic that a fat government payroll-and payola-could work on Reggio's threadbare economy...
According to the police, last week's mass meeting was "without precedent" in Calabria. The hoods did, however, steal a few lines from some distant cousins. After the famous 1957 raid at Apalachin, N.Y., the 60 mobsters who were seized there explained that they had assembled for nothing more sinister than a friendly cookout. To a man, the Montalto Mafiosi insisted that they were just "gathering mushrooms...