Word: neofascistic
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...latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
Gianfranco Fini's neofascist Italian Social Movement wins 16.4% of the vote in 428 municipal elections throughout the country, adding 14 new mayors...
Voting in municipal elections held across the country, Italians cast ballots for neofascist and former communist candidates in record numbers. The rejection of the ruling Christian Democrats and their coalition partners was due in part to their role in Italy's huge corruption scandals of recent years...
Romans split between the Democratic Party of the Left, which backed Francesco Rutelli, 39, a Green candidate who ran on an environmentalist platform promising to bring pedestrian zones and pollution controls to the decaying capital, and the baby-faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist...
...past month, as a political settlement ending decades of apartheid has inched within reach, Afrikaner and other militants have stepped up their resistance to the prospect of black majority rule. This is no mere wagon- circling exercise. This month a member of the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement will stand trial for the April assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and a popular top official of the A.N.C. Two prominent right-wing Conservative Party officials will be tried as co-conspirators in the murder. Meanwhile, Groenewald and three other former generals have come out of retirement...