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...deputy prime minister's post. But Fini is now a moderate conservative who has severed ties with the party's pro-Mussolini roots. The neighbors' real worry during the campaign was Umberto Bossi, acid-tongued leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League, who has called the E.U. the "Soviet Union of the West" and once branded Brussels bureaucrats "Nazi pedophiles." Though Bossi had toppled Berlusconi's last government by withdrawing his support in 1994, he again joined Il Cavaliere's center-right electoral coalition and was said to be slated for a prominent cabinet post. That prospect prompted some European...
...Every country is its own laboratory of democracy. Still, some general rules apply. Elections don't necessarily guarantee liberal democracy; but you can't have liberal democracy without free and fair elections. Totalitarianism won't deliver the economic goods; the fate of the Soviet Union proved that. But at a certain level of development, your economy can grow even if your political arrangements remain autocratic. In that case, you may find, however - as the ruling élite in Mexico did - that economic reform increases popular pressure for governments that are truly accountable. (Wouldn't it be nice...
Hard-liners maintain that the depth of Hanssen's betrayal demands the ultimate penalty. According to the indictment, Hanssen compromised the identity of nine Russians secretly working for the U.S., undermined America's ability to intercept Soviet military communications near the end of the cold war and sold highly classified data about U.S. early-warning systems and other plans for defense and retaliation in the face of nuclear attack. In an interview with TIME last week, Ashcroft said only that "we need to see to it that justice is done...
...increasing interdependence with our neighbors around the globe demands that we do better. Although the threat of nuclear annihilation has receded with the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the world remains a dangerous place. The emergence of the global economy calls into question the meaning of such time-honored concepts as "U.S. company" and "Made in America." Exports account for a greater percentage of our GNP than ever before...
...government, spearheaded in this case by the Justice Department, may beg to differ. Hanssen reportedly spied for the Soviet Union for 15 years, providing Moscow with top secret information - and receiving an estimated $1.4 million in return...