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...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...
...press considers the victory of Silvio Berlusconi and his Forza Italia as one of the right wing ((ITALY, April 11)). But his party is located more at the political center than anywhere else. It has been supported by those of us who long for reforms and look forward to federalism. To Americans, we might be defined as liberals on the other side of the Atlantic...
...Milan A.C. soccer team suffered a rare upset to archrival Naples. But there was no augury in the loss -- at least not for the moment. Just seconds after 10 the following night, when two days' worth of voting was done, Berlusconi stood triumphant on Italy's center stage; Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed aside 45 years of corrupt postwar government...
...original case of irredentism, the desire of Italian nationalists to seize lands governed by Austria -- Italia irredenta, or unredeemed Italy -- was a complicating factor in World War I. Nor does the trouble necessarily end when irredentists achieve their goals. Tibet, after centuries under the sway of China, declared complete independence in 1913, only to be invaded by Chinese troops in 1951. Largely as a result, India and China fought a border...
Meantime, Italia '90 continues the trend toward World Cup extravagance. Thanks to global television hookups, the games have become elaborate public relations displays, and Italy has already spent some $4 billion to improve its video profile. Traditional powers, including Brazil and West Germany, will probably dominate the fields. Italy's Azzurri, which boasts a muscular sophistication, has every intention of using home-field advantage to make Italy the first nation to win a fourth Cup. Holland's Edward Sturing and Argentina's Diego Maradona, perhaps the world's best player, figure to shine brightly among the game's top stars...