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...patriotism is the last refuge for scoundrels, what do you call a Cabinet minister who flips off the national anthem? Certainly not a statesman - nor a reliable political partner. By waving his middle finger Sunday while barking out a verse of Il Canto degli Italiani, Italy's Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi raised real questions about the long-term viability of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right ruling coalition...
Selling Up In Smoke The Italian government began its own round of privatizations as it invited bids for the state-owned tobacco monopoly Ente Tabacchi Italiani (ETI). It hopes to raise around €1.5 billion from the sale...
...even at Stalin's orders betrayed the Italian Socialists to the Fascist police - Togliatti now enthusiastically embraced "polycentrism" - that is, the right of each national Communist Party to follow its own course. When criticized from the outside, Togliatti would merely give a vastly expressive shrug: "Siamo italiani [We are Italians...
Today Milan and Rome between them boast eight supermarkets. Biggest operators: the Italian-owned Supermercato S.p.A., and the fast-growing Supermarkets Italiani (majority owner: Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Co.). Up to 10,000 customers a day in the two cities revel in the choice of up to 1,800 separate items ranging from insecticide to canned swallow's nests, from canned Malayan pineapples to frozen pizzas and spaghetti in plastic bags. Increasingly, middle-class housewives leave their maids at home (thus ending the maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally...
...Italians pronounce the initials of Saragat's Partito Socialista del Lavoratori Italiani (Socialist Party of Italian Workers) as piselli (peas...