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...vote countrywide. In search of a party with a stronger message, or perhaps just in revenge for the havoc politicians have wrought on the country, Italians registered their protest by turning to both the far left and the far right. The Northern League, an upstart populist movement centered in Milan, continued to gain power. It has threatened nothing less than the partition of the country into autonomous federations, dividing < the wealthy north from the poor south. The Democratic Party of the Left, formerly the Italian Communist Party, continues to insist that it represents the workers and the poor...
...time the first tourist hits the sand at Sunny Isles, Peruvian TV producer Jose Crousillat has been working the phones for hours, checking on his offices in Milan and Madrid. By afternoon he is in the Capitalvision studios videotaping Guadalupe, his latest Spanish-language telenovela, seen around the globe...
...quest for truth and the destruction of personal responsibility. Havel's major theme, in his writings as in his life, is the negation of value and the moral imperative for action by each individual. These are themes he shares with other writers of contemporary Eastern Europe such as Milan Kundera or Czeslaw Milosz. Kriseova excellently illustrates the centrality of these issues to both daily life and the political arena. In Czechoslovakia there can be no doubt that the artistic, the philosophical, or the details of daily life are political...
...MILAN: Milanese magistrates have given Italian taxpayers cause to cheer: by pressuring detainees in the country's widespread corruption scandal to yield their ill-gotten gains, they have recovered $63 million so far, most of it from Swiss bank accounts. This amount is clearly just the beginning. Duilio Poggiolini, a former Health Ministry official, for example, is accused of having taken $125 million in gold and silver ingots, gold rubles from the Czarist era, Krugerrands, diamonds and ancient Roman coins. Poggiolini is in jail in Naples; under questioning, his wife referred to the stash as "the savings of a lifetime...
...might have walked away a rich if restless man, since investigators could not untangle his schemes without some inside help. But they found their songbird last month, when Gardini's successor at Montedison was arrested and extradited from Switzerland. Giuseppe Garofano was brought back to Milan and immediately began giving investigators a detailed rundown of the company's double bookkeeping and multimillion-dollar payoffs to politicians. He gave them enough to issue warrants for the arrest of five top Ferruzzi executives, including Gardini...