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DIED. Luigi Petroselli, 49, typographer's son who joined the Italian Communist Party at age 19 and rose to become the first Communist to serve as mayor of Rome; of a heart attack; in Rome. Affectionately nicknamed "Joe Bananas" because of his twisted smile and boxer-like stance, the popular Petroselli, who took office in 1979, enhanced Rome's amenities by turning an area near the Coliseum into a Sundays-only pedestrian mall and instituting summer evening presentations of music, films and plays...
...Karl Marx were to visit Italy's capital of Rome, he would be undone by what the Romans do under a Communist administration. Communist Mayor Luigi Petroselli, 47, and his Communist predecessor have pushed forward a slum clearance program that has won only the enmity of the city's poor. Instead of being grateful, families that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living...
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