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...left coalition, which has been in office less than three months. The government was already hounded by discontent on all sides as Italy once again descended into a trough of multiple troubles. In southern Italy, 200,000 people shivered in the quake-stricken mountains, their suffering compounded by a corrupt, discredited bureaucracy. A high-ranking judge remained in the hands of his terrorist kidnapers. A Cabinet officer had resigned in a spreading oil-tax scandal which may involve $2.2 billion. The national mood, and respect for political authority, was probably at its lowest point since former Prime Minister Aldo Moro...
...work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront the specter of one of his triumphs. He does so suspiciously: "The Heart of the Matter was a success in the great vulgar sense of that term. There must have been something corrupt there, for the book appealed too often to weak elements in its readers...
Kania has moved aggressively to rid the party of officials who were corrupt, incompetent or tainted by past associations with the Gierek regime. Only four of the 14 voting members of the Politburo last August are still on the ruling council: Kania; Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, 57; Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, 56; and President Jablonski, 70. All but Jablonski have at least a passing association with odnowa (renewal) and Jablonski has something better -a farewell embrace from Pope John Paul II at the Cracow airport last year...
Meantime, the government continued its sporadic purge of corrupt or overly hard-line officials. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has replaced 19 of the 49 provincial first secretaries. Several provincial governors have been sacked, including one who was under fire from Solidarity. A Roman Catholic member of Parliament, Jerzy Ozdowski, 55, was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister. Although Ozdowski is not active in church affairs, his appointment should impress Poland's enormous Catholic community...
...take control of the system away from the powerful Carmen's Union. But when King swept into office two years ago-a victory aided by the support of many in the MBTA unions-he ended that process, and the T again found itself run by a powerful and corrupt labor leadership-so powerful that it exercised near-total control over all manner of MBTA administrative decisions, so powerful that its members are able to abuse overtime payments and other contract provisions...