Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose Parliament members and determine the makeup of a new government from candidates of eight major parties and a host of minor ones. Trailing in strength but leading in voter attention-and gaining more with each new disruption-is the Movimento Sociale Italiano, the latter-day heir of Benito Mussolini's Fascism...
...example, pictures of Mussolini in uniform and helmet on walls at party headquarters were replaced with 19th century landscapes. The Trieste party responded to the decree with a public ceremony at which clubs, helmets and iron bars were virtuously surrendered. In lieu of rabble-rousing party posters, MSI floods urban crime areas with handbills that read: "The people want protection against criminals...
Almirante himself, a green-eyed, graying Parma native of Sicilian ancestry, is an example of his own strategy. He has successfully smothered a fanatical past that included bitter-end service in Mussolini's last government and membership in the hated "Black Brigades" that hunted down Italian partisans. Now he is a well-tailored, low-keyed political leader. A spellbinding if somewhat long-winded orator, Almirante is in the midst of a whirlwind campaign in which he will make 230 speeches in 70 days, preaching the new neofascist message of propriety...
...neoFascists' major campaign issues this spring is a demand for a new constitution establishing a strong presidential system. Italians worried about the growing appeal of neo-Fascism take it as a bad omen that the country has not had a premature election since 1924-the year Benito Mussolini's Fascists swept to power...
While waiting for further communiques from the nostalgia front-Richard Burton's Mussolini and the return of the crew cut, perhaps-the American public is being deafened by old spies and their chroniclers whispering: "Now it can be told...