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...commentator noted that Nixon's farewell "was more of an inaugural address than anything else") and astonishment at the resilience of American institutions. Nixon's departure, said Vorwärts, the weekly journal of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, was "a deliverance." Headlined Turin's daily La Stampa: AMERICA HAS WON, NIXON RESIGNS...
...that had nothing to do with the country's annual swarm of tourists. In Tuscany, the Piedmont and Sicily, Italy's three giant labor federations called carefully orchestrated half-day work stoppages to protest government fiscal policy. Each day the protests occurred in a different region. In Turin, 25,000 auto workers poured into Piazza San Carlo for a noisy protest. Then in Florence, 40,000 mounted a parade. In Sicily, in turn, peasant farmers waved large banners that said it all succinctly: NO TO THE SUPER-DECREE...
Standing right at the storm center, and pulled in all directions, is a worker named Carmelo, called "Mimi," who incurs the wrath of the local Mafia honcho by declining to vote in the prescribed manner. Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) leaves his indifferent wife at home and moves north to Turin. There he lands a job in a metallurgy plant, a position in the trade union and the love of a ravishing bohemian called Fiore (Mariangela Melato...
Editorialized Turin's La Stampa: "It is perhaps the most dangerous and dramatic crisis since the war." Added Milan's Corriere Delia Sera: "This crisis is different. We are running the risk of a total collapse of the economic system...
...referendum has signaled Italy's turning from its traditional Mediterranean, clergy-dominated past toward the modern, secular social idea of northern Europe. That, at least, is what the vote meant to Turin's staid newspaper La Stampa. After the results were in, it ran a banner headline: ITALY IS A MODERN COUNTRY...