Word: neo-fascist
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...soccer referee. For militant leftists, there is Anarchist Pietro Valpreda, 39, a professional dancer by trade, who is charged with having killed 16 people and wounded 90 by planting a bomb two years ago in Milan's Agricultural Bank. Militant rightists can turn to Pino Rauti, 46, a neo-Fascist newsman who is accused of exploding 24 bombs at various places in 1969, including eight aboard trains on the Milan-Venice run. If elected, both Valpreda and Rauti would gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution...
During the past year, though, the Christian Democrats have suddenly found their right flank exposed. In last June's local elections, the Neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano made substantial gains by preaching the need for more law-and-order. Now the M.S.I, is trying to rally Catholics to its banner on a referendum against a controversial divorce law that Parliament passed in 1970. In order to keep the vote of Italy's conservative Catholics, the Christian Democrats cannot openly oppose the referendum-but a waffling stance threatens their alliance with the Socialists, who are adamantly opposed to repeal...
Thirty-six hours before voters went to the polls last week in municipal and regional elections, Italy's small but increasingly influential neo-Fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), staged a victory celebration in Rome's swank Casina Valadier restaurant. Ordinarily the script might call for the premature celebrators to come up with pasta all over their faces, but, when the election results came in last week, the M.S.I.'s self-confidence proved to be justified. In Sicily, Rome and 157 other cities, a determined get-out-the-vote campaign helped lure more than...
...altered. Most of the balloting, involving nearly one-fifth of Italy's 37 million voters, took place in the conservative south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that have afflicted Italy for the past three years. Said Socialist Giacomo Mancini, whose party is the second strongest in the ruling coalition: "The M.S.I, would...
Anger & Frustration. Most of the neo-Fascist votes were picked up at the expense of the Christian Democrats, Italy's dominant political organization. Last week the Christian Democrats registered 31% of the total vote, compared with 35.2% in last year's regional elections. Except for Genoa, where they preserved their old power balance with one-third of the tally, the Communists also dropped votes. The M.S.I, gains were most pronounced in Sicily, where the party picked up eight seats for a total of 15 in the regional legislature. The Christian Democrats, by comparison, lost seven seats, which left...