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...ever thought that when the cold war ended, one of the losers would be Italy? For more than four decades, the same handful of politicians and parties claimed power as a bulwark against bolshevism. But once the threat of a communist government in Rome fizzled, the cozy coalition system began to implode. In the past year, magistrates have uncovered a spaghetti of corruption -- illicit political payments, bribery, kickbacks and outright thievery -- so tangled that even the tolerant, rule-bending Italians have been shocked. Many watched with a mixture of glee and dismay as nearly 2,500 of the country...
...Sicily, in 1982, were being scrutinized anew. So was the embezzlement, allegedly by Christian Democrats, of $40 billion in aid intended to rebuild several southern cities after the 1980 earthquake, and the disappearance of huge sums of Third World development aid said to have been plundered by officials in Rome...
...French election may well have signaled the final act in the history of West European socialism, whose roots, like the very notion of left and right politics, go back to the French Revolution. From Stockholm to Rome, from Lisbon to Bonn, socialist and social-democratic movements are in trouble. The Italian party is entangled in financial scandals that prompted Bettino Craxi's resignation as chairman and may put dozens of members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election...
...They know that as long as the talk continues, nothing will be done to fix the economy. Moscow commentators have compared events in Russia with the corruption scandal shaking the political system in Italy. But if you ask Russians, they would gladly endure the turmoil going on in Rome -- as long as they could enjoy the Italian standard of living...
...nuclear apocalypticism has gone out of fashion. The vacuum is amply filled by the eco-catastrophists. The late '60s featured Paul Ehrlich's huge best seller, The Population Bomb, an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the End brought on by overpopulation -- by 1983. In the '70s, the Club of Rome predicted, with hilarious imprecision, a coming doomsday of uncontrollable pollution, wild overpopulation and resource depletion (by 1992, for example...