Word: berlusconi
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...government actions to stem the losses may be causing more problems than they solve. The Italian campaign, which began just as the newly elected right- wing government of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi took office, hit largely left-leaning bulletin boards. And it is seen by some Italians as an ill- disguised attempt to suppress free speech on a troublesome new medium. In the U.S. a widely publicized federal case against a college student accused of operating a pirate bulletin board may backfire if, as expected, a judge rules that the charges filed against the student do not fit the crime...
...once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the 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...
Millionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, 57, took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy's 53rd post-World War II government. He named a Cabinet that included, as expected, members of the neo-Fascist National Alliance...
Billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, who led a right-wing coalition to victory in national elections in March, has been asked to form the first conservative government in Italy's post-World War II history...
...press considers the victory of Silvio Berlusconi and his Forza Italia as one of the right wing ((ITALY, April 11)). But his party is located more at the political center than anywhere else. It has been supported by those of us who long for reforms and look forward to federalism. To Americans, we might be defined as liberals on the other side of the Atlantic...