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...Rome, a crowd including 50 parliamentary Deputies led by tough, balding Communist Giancarlo Pajetta and Republican Ludovico Camangi marched to Porta San Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into...
Moments later, Pajetta strode into the Chamber of Deputies dramatically waving the blood-smeared shirt of Socialist Deputy Gianguido Borghese, who had been hurt in the cavalry charge. "Assassins!" shouted the Communists, and the chamber quickly became a free-for-all. Communists and Christian Democrats knocked aside ushers, grappled along the chamber's steep aisles. Only after hours of battling was order restored...
...recent downgrading of Stalin, with all its agonizing zigzags in Red doctrine has confused and disgruntled even the most faithful readers. Beyond that, as international tensions ease and Italy's economy grows stronger. Communist rantings about the West are beginning to ring hollow to many Italians. Admits Giancarlo Pajetta. Italy's No. 2 Communist and the Reds' press boss: "Less international tension is bad for the party press. People lose interest...