Word: mussolini
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...pieces from such journals as the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe...
...federalists of the Northern League, weary of watching their tax money leave the region, yearn to hive off Italy's rich north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini praised the former dictator who allied himself with Hitler as "the greatest statesman of the century...
...billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Freedom Alliance won a strong majority of 366 seats in Parliament's lower house and a plurality of 155 seats in the Senate. Included in the victorious coalition is the neo-Fascist National Alliance, whose leaders still revere the memory of the dictator Benito Mussolini...
Alliances backed by former communists swept balloting in municipal elections in several of Italys largest cities, including Genoa, Naples, Rome, Trieste and Venice. Neo-Fascist candidate Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the dictator, lost her bid to become mayor of Naples...
...death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist who had the backing of the leftists and the Greens, and the neofascist party's Alessandra Mussolini, 30, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. In Genoa and Venice the leftists surprisingly forced runoffs against the Northern League, suggesting there may be a geographic limit to the separatists' appeal...