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...that Neapolitans had been doing something like this to each other-and in city hall, at that. On a muggy 99° evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year-old hall shouting, "Clean up the mess!" Cops broke it up by arresting 30 of the demonstrators. Inside, Mayor Achille Lauro, millionaire shipowner and leader of the Popular Monarchist Party, insisted, "Our hands are clean, because we don't have to soil ourselves by stealing public money." No one accused Lauro of pocketing any money personally. But the Ministry of the Interior in Rome declared that its inquiry into Naples...
...Lauro assigned 77 city cars to his cronies for personal use, ordered the city to pay the license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶ Lauro required every city contractor to kick back up to 10% to his "Welfare and Feast Fund," supposedly for poor Neapolitans, who thought their Christmas packages and spaghetti handouts had come from Lauro's own pocket. ¶Dandified Senator Gaetano Fiorentino, Lauro's No. 1 helper who now drives...
...Monarchist in name only-the autographed portrait of King Umberto II that graced his desk has recently disappeared -Lauro has no illusions about restoring the House of Savoy. His more modest goal is to build the sagging Italian right into a political force strong enough to help govern Italy in coalition with the Christian Democrats...
...Kiss from Achille. Lauro began the Sardinian campaign for his Monarchist candidates by doling out 10,000 Easter eggs and 10,000 parcels of toys. These were followed by 10,000 layettes, 500,000 key cases, 100,000 aprons bearing the rampant lion of the Popular Monarchist Party, and countless babies' bibs inscribed "A Kiss from Lauro." (Of the 800 babies born in Sardinia in the past two months, 103 were christened Achille...
...offense to democratic usage and the good sense of the Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...