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Article: Mud-slinging after the deluge
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 13, 1994
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THERE IS something particularly insulting about mud, as the
fastidious inhabitants of Alessandria discovered last week. The
floodwaters that swept across northern Italy finally receded,
swirling eastwards to the Po delta to spend themselves in the
Adriatic. But towns and villages in Italy's wealthiest provinces
were still floundering in the mire. And in the eyes of many
northerners, so was the Italian government.
"You were the victims of the flood," intoned the Bishop of
Alessandria, Monsignor Ferdinando Charrier, over the coffins of
eight of the 10 local people who were among 64 Italians killed in
the disaster. "But you were also victims of a society that seeks
only the ephemeral and the ...