Word: mussolini
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...Berlusconi's Forza Italia the nation's most powerful political party, with nearly 30% of the vote, and gave so-called Il Cavaliere a big enough majority to have a shot at staying in power for a full five-year term - something no Italian prime minister has accomplished since Mussolini. Turning out in large numbers, the voters themselves did what years of bickering about the election law had failed to do: weed out the small parties that have traditionally wielded undue power and concentrate support on the two main blocs...
...that far-right elements might find their way into the new government. Gianfranco Fini, whose post-fascist National Alliance took 12% of the vote, was immediately promised a deputy prime minister's post. But Fini is now a moderate conservative who has severed ties with the party's pro-Mussolini roots. The neighbors' real worry during the campaign was Umberto Bossi, acid-tongued leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League, who has called the E.U. the "Soviet Union of the West" and once branded Brussels bureaucrats "Nazi pedophiles." Though Bossi had toppled Berlusconi's last government by withdrawing his support...
...Until Mussolini drained the mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...
...republic in 1946; in Geneva. As a member of the Savoy dynasty, she ruled alongside her husband, King Umberto II, for a total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...church has enough saints and people of merit to last till the next millennium. Who will it canonize next? Benito Mussolini? LIA CHASEN East Norwich...