Word: neo-fascists
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Throughout the heated campaign, the moral and legal issue of divorce was often overshadowed by the political battle between the two sides. In an odd amalgam of forces, the Christian Democrats found themselves aligned with the neo-Fascist M.S.I, in opposing divorce...
...neo-Fascist Italian general is found stiff as a pillar in his Roman...
...speaker was Giorgio Almirante, 58, the dapper chieftain of the far right, neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (M.S.I.), the country's fourth largest political party. Two weeks ago, he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity by an overwhelming vote of his fellow members of the Chamber of Deputies, who were responding to a nationwide outcry against a wave of Fascist-inspired violence (TIME, May 21). As a result of the vote, Almirante may be tried for the constitutional crime of "reconstituting the Fascist Party." Possible sentence: three to twelve years in prison. Last week TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante interviewed...
...furor was provoked by two unrelated acts of violence that occurred last month. In the first, a 22-year-old neo-Fascist named Nico Azzi tried to blow up a crowded Turin-to-Rome train by planting a sizable charge of TNT in a washroom. Fortunately for the 500 passengers, the detonator Azzi was wiring exploded when the train suddenly lurched. Bleeding heavily, Azzi was placed under arrest and taken to a hospital. Police later revealed that he was a member of the extreme neo-Fascist Ordine Nuovo (New Order). Although he had no proven connection with M.S.I., Azzi...
Following the policeman's death, Milan authorities launched a massive manhunt; some 60 neo-Fascist suspects were picked up and grilled. Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...