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Thirty-six hours before voters went to the polls last week in municipal and regional elections, Italy's small but increasingly influential neo-Fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), staged a victory celebration in Rome's swank Casina Valadier restaurant. Ordinarily the script might call for the premature celebrators to come up with pasta all over their faces, but, when the election results came in last week, the M.S.I.'s self-confidence proved to be justified. In Sicily, Rome and 157 other cities, a determined get-out-the-vote campaign helped lure more than...
...altered. Most of the balloting, involving nearly one-fifth of Italy's 37 million voters, took place in the conservative south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that have afflicted Italy for the past three years. Said Socialist Giacomo Mancini, whose party is the second strongest in the ruling coalition: "The M.S.I, would...
Anger & Frustration. Most of the neo-Fascist votes were picked up at the expense of the Christian Democrats, Italy's dominant political organization. Last week the Christian Democrats registered 31% of the total vote, compared with 35.2% in last year's regional elections. Except for Genoa, where they preserved their old power balance with one-third of the tally, the Communists also dropped votes. The M.S.I, gains were most pronounced in Sicily, where the party picked up eight seats for a total of 15 in the regional legislature. The Christian Democrats, by comparison, lost seven seats, which left...
...godlike pontifications of John Steele in the Essay on neo-isolationism [May 31] were just too much. If he thinks that "there are hardly any real isolationists left," he does not get around much. Doesn't he know that the 20th century is almost over, and that after 70 years we should have learned a few lessons about trying to be the do-gooding, give-it-to-them, smug messiah for all the world's people...
...CATHOLIC PENTECOSTALS, like the Jesus People, emerged unexpectedly and dramatically in 1967. Publicly austere but privately ecstatic in their devotion to the Holy Spirit, they remain loyal to the church but unsettle some in the hierarchy. In a sense they are following the lead of mainstream Protestant Neo-Pentecostals, who have been leading charismatic renewal movements in their own churches for a decade...