Word: taratufo
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Carrying picks, mattocks and hoes, some 3,000 peasants poured into Marigliano's marketplace Monday morning for Operazione Taratufo (Operation Spud), as the Communists called it. Many waved crude signs denouncing the Italian government and the European Common Market. Communist agitators in the crowd also put the blame on U.S. President Eisenhower (on the ungrounded thesis that U.S. wheat shipments for needy Italian children had undermined the potato market). Actually, low prices were the result of a local surplus, panicky farmers' hasty dumping on the market, and above all, the tight squeeze of the Camorra, the middlemen-racketeers...
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