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Some new and-for Italy-daring campaign maneuvers are being introduced in this election. To offset the same kind of voter distrust that has generated anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead...
...Independence from Moscow and Peking was only possible however, through the dismantling of inefficient state-managed economies and their replacement by capitalism, with plenty of opportunity--Moynihan implies--for U.S. investment. Strangely, this is the same type of strings-attached investment that the underdeveloped world has recently claimed to distrust...
Many black politicians, especially on the West Coast, distrust Brown as a minimalist whose constant refrain is "People must lower their expectations." Said California Assemblyman Willie Brown, who drives a sporty Porsche: "My expectations have not been lowered. I still want my Turbo Carrera"-a reference to a supercharged GT model with a $25,850 price tag. Nonetheless, Jerry drew cheers again when he pointed at Mervyn Dymally, California's black Lieutenant Governor, and shouted: "If I go to Washington, he goes to Sacramento. If I'm elected President, I will appoint the first black Governor...
Forty members of the student security patrol have charged the University police officer who supervises the force with favoritism and with fostering what they call an atmosphere of distrust on the patrol...
...student who signed the letter said, "It's possible that a certain number of people are not doing their jobs, but the atmosphere of distrust creates a negative response" to discipline...