Word: mussolini
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...spent many years in Argentina, it strikes me that the most harmful legacy left behind by this Mussolini-styled dictator is the uprooting of the moral and civic conscientiousness among the people and military of a country that enjoys all the qualifications to sustain a democracy. This will be the cause for a continued weak administration and corrupt politicians...
What was planned to be a quiet, out-of-the-way wedding for Romano Mussolini, 34, jazz pianist son of II Duce, and Maria Scicolone, 23, curvy kid sister of Sophia Loren, turned into a tragicomic Roman holiday. With tumultuous thousands mobbing the tiny church at Predappio (where his father is buried), the bridegroom fainted dead away, but was revived by injection of a stimulant in time to weather the ceremony. The day came to an ill-starred conclusion when the chauffeur-driven Rolls of sister Sophia was involved in a collision that killed a local schoolteacher...
...unity of the Soviet bloc. Togliatti's support of Khrushchev, says Senior Stalinist Mauro Scoccimarro, 66, has "created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted at a recent meeting: "Khrushchev is a madman who belongs in a padded cell...
...them breaking into the building before the police finally arrived. In Brussels, university students threw stones and hunks of metal at the windows of the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with the United Nations!" A deputy in parliament declared hotly that the U.S.-backed Congo operation was "savagery worthy of Mussolini in Ethiopia," and another Belgian likened the U.N.'s U Thant to Goebbels...
Deciding against two wives accused of adultery who had sought to have Article 559 of the Penal Code declared unconstitutional, the judges ruled that the law, enacted during Mussolini's Fascist regime, was valid, even though it stood in clear contradiction to the 1947 constitution. Article 3 of the constitution states that "all citizens have equal social rank and are equal before the law without distinction of sex." True enough, reasoned the venerable judges, but this did not mean that the framers of the law "were obligated to provide equal discipline for all." Husbands must be protected against...