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...demands are met. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Fast Food Insults McDonald's sued influential food critic Edoardo Raspelli for saying that its fries tasted like cardboard and its burgers like rubber. The food chain said his comments were "clearly offensive and defamatory." Raspelli, who writes a regular column for La Stampa, refused to back down from his statements and said the food giant was seeking €21 million - the amount it spent on advertising in Italy last year. last year...
...with swastika-like emblems. Mainstream political leaders expressed outrage, but not Teodoro Buontempo, 48, a self-proclaimed fascist elected to Parliament in March on the ticket of the National Alliance, the successor to the party founded by followers of Benito Mussolini. In an interview with the Turin daily La Stampa, Buontempo said, "I would send them into the midst of society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci, leader of the Vicenza marchers, said, "We follow a policy that we hope will regain lost values in our community. Fascism...
...vote in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling Mussolini the "greatest statesman of the century." He complained that the interviewer put words in his mouth but still considers joining forces with Hitler to have been Mussolini's main mistake. That, he says, "ruined fascism...
...questions as HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO FALL TO TERROR SO THAT BONN WILL BE ALERT? flashed across the nation's television screens. Pointed criticism poured in from abroad, including condemnations from the governments of Turkey and Israel. THE SILENCE OF TOO MANY ACCOMPLICES, headlined Italy's La Stampa...
What is an out-of-work former superpower leader to do? MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is taking a cue from Richard Nixon and picking up a pen. A very special pen. Gorbachev has signed on as a journalist with the prestigious Italian daily La Stampa, which plans to publish 10 of his global ruminations a year. His first piece, a defense of socialism, was picked up by the New York Times this week. Gorbachev added a historical flourish as he signed his new employment contract in Moscow. Pausing dramatically, he noted that he had once used the same pen to sign...