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...more its citizens seem to enjoy la dolce vita. As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains Author Italo Calvino: "Italians know that they can count only on their own individual strength, that it is useless to expect anything from an authority whose institutions do not function...
Though he fears that anything might shatter Poland's fragile state, severing him permanently from his family and homeland, he wishes to vacation in Poland again soon. But one friend warned, between beers and commercials. "If you go back, [the government] will scoop...
Then they threw me into a cell full of other battered political prisoners and threatened to "play football" with me again unless my memory improved. [The same technique was used by SAVAK and called by the same name. The aim is to shatter the prisoner's self-confidence and ability to think clearly so that he cannot consistently relate a "cover" story he may have prepared...
...more immediate worry was the dispute between Israel and Syria over Syrian missiles in Lebanon. Another war in the Middle East would shatter Haig's hope that moderate nations there would form some kind of "strategic consensus" against the Soviet Union...
...denied the charge. There were some signs that a debate was waging within Begin's Likud coalition over the possible political advantages of a Middle East crisis. The sensationalist leftist weekly Ha 'olam Ha 'zeh reported that proponents of war now argued that strife would 1) shatter the peace treaty with Egypt and thus permit Israel to hold on to the northern and eastern third of the Sinai rather than restore the territory to the Egyptians in 1982; and 2) enable the Israelis to ravage the fast-growing Syrian army before it became a more formidable...