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...MILAN KUNDERA...
...writer must know how to start a fight. A good writer must know how to finish one. Czechoslovakia's Milan Kundera is a good writer, but like so many other dissident artists in Communist countries, the fights he starts in his satiric novels and stories are lost battles at the outset. In The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere and Laughable Loves, Kundera attempted to shift the combat to that more neutral ground known as the human comedy. Even so, he never really escapes the sadness and bitterness of recent Czech history...
...take, then fled southward. Behind them they left the bodies of scores of animals in a desolated area now sealed off by barbed wire. The cause of the exodus: a cloud of toxic gas caused by an explosion at a chemical plant in Meda, twelve miles north of Milan...
...square feet of floor space, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is the largest church in the world. Next come the Seville Cathedral, St. John's, and the cathedrals in Liverpool, Milan and Washington...
...Communists as red devils, the DC employed not only the politics of the coverup, but the politics of terror. Recent investigations have indicated that the escalating series of unexplained bombings and attacks (beginning in late 1969--suspiciously soon after the strikes--with the explosion in Piazza Fontana in Milan, including bombings of trains in the summer of 1974, and most recently, the killing of a state prosecutor in Genoa) all of which the government attributed to extremist groups of the left, may actually have been planned by the Italian secret service...