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Brave Efforts. Last year Italy's hard-pressed Guardia di Finanza (financial police) made brave efforts to stanch the flow of capital. In the first eight months of 1976 more than $11 million in contraband currency was seized, and a further $496 million in illegal financial deals was uncovered. Far more had undoubtedly slipped past the understaffed Guardia. As one of its officers admitted last week, "We would have to mobilize the whole Italian army if we wanted to search every person and car that crossed our frontiers. Last year almost 40 million people crossed into Italy...
...exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks to take down the license numbers of Italian motorists making deposits...
...early December, 190 people have been arrested for currency crimes. Francis Ravano and Enrico Zenoglio, a pair of shipping and insurance operators from Genoa, were fined a staggering total of $5.7 million for hiding $2 million in foreign bank accounts. Although the $2 million was seized by the Guardia, the defendants thanked the court for its leniency in not sending them to prison...
...Guard Socialists who accused him of undue willingness to compromise, while simultaneously providing an opening for the Trotskyites, who deliberately sabotaged their rival party on the Left. The liberals, on the other hand, regularly deserted the party to vote for "progressive" candidates such as Fiorello La Guardia and Franklin D. Roosevelt whose ties to corrupt and reactionary political machines made it unthinkable for Thomas to endorse them...
...Spain, the torture of political suspects, especially Basque separatists, apparently continues despite King Juan Carlos' seemingly genuine wish to liberalize political life. This is in part because the notorious Guardia Civil, the most feared of Spain's law-enforcement agencies, is virtually a law unto itself in the four Basque provinces. One common torture method used by the Guardia is bastinado, the continual flogging of the soles of the feet with a rubber truncheon...