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DIED. BETTINO CRAXI, 65, Italy's first postwar socialist leader from 1983 to 1987; in Tunisia. He later faced charges of corruption...
CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI, ITALY'S NEW PRIME MINister, hit the ground running last week -- and almost stayed there. Hours after swearing in his Cabinet, Ciampi faced his first crisis. The lower house of Parliament voted in a secret ballot to let former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi avoid trial on four of the most serious of six charges of corruption and election-law violations. The votes came either from his old cronies or from opposition legislators who want to force new elections. Thousands of people took to the streets in Rome, Milan, Genoa and other cities to protest that cowardly display...
...history of West European socialism, whose roots, like the very notion of left and right politics, go back to the French Revolution. From Stockholm to Rome, from Lisbon to Bonn, socialist and social-democratic movements are in trouble. The Italian party is entangled in financial scandals that prompted Bettino Craxi's resignation as chairman and may put dozens of members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election in 14 years, while Germany's Social Democratic Party has been...
...began in 1991, and got a break a year ago, when Luca Magni, owner of a cleaning company, got tired of paying tangenti, or kickbacks, for the contract to service a public nursing home. He led prosecutors to the facility's administrator, Mario Chiesa, a Socialist Party activist and Craxi associate. The police moved in, Chiesa squealed and the political house of cards began to collapse. Admits Clean Hands chief prosecutor Francesco Saverio Borrelli: "We had no idea when we started how deep this would...
...first, party bigwigs tried to brazen it out. But as the evidence of graft among the major parties multiplied, so did public outrage. Shortly before resigning, Craxi was accosted by an angry mob outside his party headquarters. Damning testimony from several key figures, and the likelihood that members of Parliament will be stripped of their immunity from criminal prosecution, sent party higher-ups into a frenzy. Says sociologist Franco Ferrarotti of the University of Rome: "These people always operated on the concept that public funds belong to the person who grabs them first. Whatever they steal is theirs. There...