Word: neofascistic
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...most polished of the new breed is Gianfranco Fini, 42, who deftly transformed the once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling...
...called Republicans," he declares. "In France we'd be Gaullists." He believes the Italians who support him are voting issues -- jobs, health care, crime -- not ideology. "There isn't one Italian in a hundred who would ask me about fascism, racial laws and Nazis," he says. The neofascist label, he insists, was unfairly tagged to his party by the press and his political opponents...
Saturday: Was unanimously elected to a 10-year term as dictator of the Liberal Democratic Party during a Moscow party conference; guests included a German neofascist and a delegation from Iraq...
...Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Prague, Clinton will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday for three days of talks. One person he will not meet is the politician who set off the alarms in Central Europe and a flurry of reconsiderations in Washington: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Moscow's ascendant neofascist. When he learned Clinton would not see him, Zhirinovsky, whose party won about 23% of the popular vote in last month's parliamentary elections, launched into one of his frequent tirades. He said the President's decision showed he was "a coward" who should "play his saxophone instead of coming...
...strong showing by a neofascist party sets off alarm bells...