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...scandal is Mario Segni, 53, a renegade Christian Democrat who wants a referendum on election reform. Says Segni: "Italy has lived through a horrible phase of corruption. The only good sign is that people are finally fed up." Adds Leoluca Orlando, 45, leader of the reformist La Rete party: "The old boys have had their chance. Now they must move aside and let us clean...
Since the Suûreteé blew his cover last year (TIME, Oct. 4), the chubby, urbane French press attacheé to NATO had been busy preparing his rationale. Last week, at his trial before a state security court in Paris, he unveiled it. Posed imperiously in the box, with one hand resting lightly on a thick dossier and a thin smile playing across his face, Paâques took six hours to tell his tale of misguided intelligence. His 19-year career as an agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, Paâques argued, had been nothing...
...home. The soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...
...recent weeks the Parliamentary committee investigating I'affaire Stavisky has glossed over even such startling admissions as one by Inspector Le Gall of the Sûrete (Secret Police) that "I would have had 99 chances out of a 100 to capture Stavisky alive if I had been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps...
...French Conservatives loudly demanded the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Newspapers offered prizes for the most plausible solution to the mystery, reprinted long accounts of the nefarious doings of the Russian secret service (G. P. U.) in foreign countries. French agents of the Sûrete Générale complained that the number of entirely unauthorized amateur detectives was seriously interfering with their investigations. Round Paris cafes spread lurid accounts of secret underground torture chambers in the Soviet Embassy. One story persisted-of a mysterious red taxicab and a man dressed as a gendarme...
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