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Article: Italy's hopelessness. (voters' demand for political reforms)
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- National Review
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- April 12, 1993
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Let's not indulge in understatements: if Italy manages to survive its present crisis, chances are that God is Italian. The present mess makes all previous ones look like minor disturbances. During a meeting in Liechtenstein a couple of years ago, George Urban asked me to say something about Italy's organized crime. I responded that I thought organized politics did far more damage than organized crime. George replied: "How can you tell them apart?" Little did we know.
In the past several months the media have dedicated most of their coverage to indictments for political kickbacks, bribery, and corruption. So far 112 out of the 945 Deputies and Senators have been ...