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Touvier, now 57, was a fascist in prewar France who later headed the regional militia under the Vichy regime. According to testimony at his postwar trial, he aided the Gestapo in hunting down Resistance fighters and Jews. He personally commanded an execution squad in an operation against partisans. Once, as a reprisal for the killing of a Vichy Minister of Propaganda, Philippe Henriot, Touvier took seven Jewish shopkeepers as hostages and had them shot...
...Trintignant, 41, has emerged only in recent years as a superbly subtle technician of the screen. His taut, understated performances have included such diverse characterizations as the driven public prosecutor in Costa-Gavras' Z, the uptight Catholic in Rohmer's Ma Nuit Chez Maud and the intellectual fascist-killer in Bertolucci's The Conformist. Trintignant's acting style is condensed to a prodigious point of thrift in which complex characters are brought to life with extraordinary economy of gesture and expression. "The best actor in the world," he maintains, "is the one who feels the most...
...labor-short West Germany and Sweden, but those 1,000 manage to stir up more trouble than almost any other nation's migres. They are divided into rival groups, variously espousing antiCommunist, anti-Tito and anti-Serbian views, but sharing a common derivation from the Ustase, the notorious wartime fascist government of Croatia...
...former president of the Common Market Commission, was easily re-elected a Christian Democratic Deputy. Admiral Gino Birindelli, until recently commander of NATO's Mediterranean naval forces and now the darling of Italy's right, also won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano...
...left," an alliance with the Socialists a decade ago. He has taken to attacking youthful demonstrators and proclaiming "we must react," as if to show that he is not now afraid to be called a reactionary. Fanfani, and leaders of other Italian parties, are really reacting to the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, whose call for law-and-order-along with voter disenchantment with other issues-may well double M.S.I.'s small (24-seat) parliamentary bloc in next week's vote...