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...contrast, in the northern industrial center of Turin, Communist Mayor Diego Novelli, 48, has at least solved his city's disastrous schoolroom shortage. In Turin, swollen with immigrant laborers from Italy's south, classrooms were so rare 4% years ago that students had to attend in two and sometimes three shifts. Now all put in a full day. Since 1975 (when Novelli was elected), the city has built 1,159 new classrooms and opened 267 kindergartens and 34 municipal nurseries...
...Novelli's biggest single headache is a monstrous migraine: terrorism. As the home of Fiat's giant works, Turin is targeted by the radical left as the stronghold of Italian capitalism. Three weeks ago, still another Fiat official was almost routinely shot in the legs as he walked to his home in a Turin suburb. The "kneecapping" was the city's 124th terrorist attack to take place in 1979. Novelli insists that this pattern of violence "has not interrupted the carrying out of our duties for one hour. We have given Turin a government. In the five...
...failure of these Communist mayors to live up to the voters' expectations could well cost the party Naples, Rome and Turin in next year's local elections, although Novelli has perhaps a slightly better hope of remaining in office. Whatever the outcome, says University of Rome Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, an independent leftist, "the myth of the Communists' administrative efficiency has been exposed. The Christian Democrats may be corrupt, but they have the experience of government. The Communists are simply not yet equipped to govern...
...Rosario Berardi, 52, was killed, shot seven times while waiting for a streetcar. A phone call from the Red Brigades promised that a woman juror would be next. Four defense lawyers abruptly resigned, and the trial was postponed again. Would it resume? Yes, declared Turin's mayor, Diego Novelli. "This is the only real answer that democracy can give...
...part, Novelli insists that "we're not out to Bolshevize Turin." He describes himself primarily as a concerned Torinese rather than a dogmatic Marxist. "I've been to Moscow several times," he says. "With all our problems here, I'd still rather live in Turin...