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...diplomacy-the happiest feasible outcome of a territorial dispute that had long poisoned relations between Italy and Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. But this week, as the fifth anniversary of the great day approached, no one felt like putting out more flags. When Trieste's Mayor Mario Franzil laid a wreath in the piazza in memory of pro-Italian rioters killed during the Allied occupation, only the pigeons looked on. After five years of Italian rule, once flourishing Trieste is dying economically...
Grumbled Mayor Franzil: "Trieste, of course, is a city close to all Italian hearts, and Roman politicians are so moved when they come here that their eyes fill with tears. Maybe that's why they can't see our problems...
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