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...first explosion came at dawn. The sleepy-eyed citizens of Bolzano, a quiet, German-speaking town in Italy's Alpine province of South Tyrol, trembled wonderingly out of bed and into the streets. At the second blast, an eerie bluish light flashed over the mountains as a high-tension tower toppled and its 220,000-volt cables short-circuited. For two hours the bombs continued to go off around Bolzano. The stunned Tyroleans slowly realized what had happened. Germanic extremists, who had long been agitating for more local autonomy, had declared private war on the Italian state...
Dissension has simmered in the Tyrol ever since the southern half was cut away from the Austrian empire at the peace tables of 1919 and given to Italy. The deal clearly violated Wilsonian principles of self-determination, since the overwhelming majority of Tyroleans did, and still do, speak German and consider themselves Austrian. Ever since Attila, invaders have swooped down into Italy through the Brenner Pass; but the annexation allowed the Italians to establish a defense line at the crest of the pass itself...
...hardly dry before Tyrolean extremists found cause for grousing. The Italians merged South Tyrol with Italian-speaking Trento province, creating a new, bigger "autonomous" Alto Adige province in which the Italians outnumbered the German-speaking citizens 2 to 1. The Tyroleans claimed Italians were given all the important government administrative jobs; German was neglected in the public schools and no longer recognized as an official language. Last year Austria took the Tyroleans' claims to the U.N., which directed Austria and Italy to get together and settle the problem. Two tries earlier this year failed, but in preparation...
Raab picked and groomed his own successor-jovial, Tyrol-born Alfons Gorbach. 62, a longtime People's Party leader in the province of Styria. Contented Austrians hope that their new Chancellor will keep things pretty much the comfortable way Julius Raab left them...
...police state under British rule." Belgium's Pierre Wigny announced that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired as World War I spoils-he would demand U.N. intervention...