U.S.- Italy

AN APPEAL BY RALPH SALERNO TO VOTE ANTIPROHIBITIONIST

New York - Palermo, 24-26 April 1990. For over twenty years member of the U.S. federal police, active in anti-narcotic squads, chief-investigator of the District Office, adviser of the Hudson Institute, now member of the Drug Policy Foundation, Ralph Salerno states: "For the coming elections, the stakes are very high. I would like to draw your attention on one fact: it is necessary to pursue the antiprohibitionist strategy, the only one capable of preventing the erosion of civil rights and liberties, which is the ultimate or final result of those governments that think they will eliminate the use of drugs with penal or military methods. At present the prisons of the United States are overcrowded; the courts are overwhelmed with work; the policemen continue to die in a hopeless war against the "drug plague". The hard line adopted by the "Zar" William Bennet to improve the situation in the capital of the United States, Washington D.C., has failed, on his own admission. (...) Vote antiprohibitionist. It is a go

od policy, a good economy, a good sense of business. It is good democracy.

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Italy

ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIULIO ANDREOTTI MEETS RADICAL PEPPINO CALDERISI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERALIST GROUP AT THE PARLIAMENT, AND FRANCESCO GUI, PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERALIST MOVEMENT.

Rome, 27 April 1990. During the meeting with Andreotti, Calderisi and Gui ratified the favourable opinion, repeatedly expressed by the Italian Parliament concerning the appointment of a constituent mandate to the European Parliament and in favour of the constitution of a "special committee", headed by the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, to prepare the conference on the political European union which shall be summoned under the Italian presidency of the European Community. Moreover, the concern was expressed that the proposal of Mitterand and Kohl will privilege the national diplomacies, damaging the role of the European Parliament and of the Commission and of a fully democratic asset of the European Community.

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Soviet Union

MEETING BETWEEN THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTER AND THE RADICAL PARTY

Moscow, 28 April 1990. The Soviet Interior Minister summoned the representatives of the Radical Party to illustrate the current phase of the debate on the new laws, planned for October, on the security and the legalization of the new social and political group===========================================================Italy

ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL REPRESSION: STATEMENTS BY ANGELO PEZZANA AND ENZO CUCCO OF THE FUORI

Turin, 29 April 1990. A monument to the homosexuals exterminated in the Nazi lagers was inaugurated in Bologna, and this is good news. The bad news is that the ARCI GAY, together with the Communist municipal administration of Bologna, forgot to also commemorate the hundreds of thousands of homosexuals and lesbians who were exterminated, deported, exiled, and literally made to disappear in the Communist countries.

Perhaps memory can fail at times, and make people forget that Stalin restored the offence of homosexuality in 1933, and that from that moment on mass arrests were carried out, especially in the artistic milieu in Moscow, Odessa and Leningrad. That the future of a whole generation of intellectual homosexuals was tragically marked (Sergei Esenin, Nikolai Kliuev, Mikhail Kuzmin, Sofia Parnok, Yury Zavadsky, Pavel Antokolsky, just to mention some). That Yury Chicherin, head of the Soviet diplomacy for many years, was put in a mental hospital and dismissed from his office. That Sergei Eisenstein was "strongly invited" to marry. That all of the scarce testimonials from that country in the years between 1933 and yesterday are terrifying.

One can forget, or pretend not to know everything. Except the fact that the fierce repression carried out by the Cuban Communist regime and by the Chinese regime are still in force. Not the tremendous life conditions the homosexuals in Eastern Europe have had to endure for decades. Not the silence in which thousands - perhaps hundreds of thousands - of homosexual lives have been suppressed.

It took 50 years for the guilty conscience of the Communist parties to acknowledge the extermination carried out by the Nazis against homosexuals for the simple fact that they were homosexuals, as well as against the Jews, the Gipsies, the political opponents. How much time will it take for them to confess the horror that homosexuals and lesbians have had to endure in the Communist regimes?

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Czechoslovakia

RADICAL ASSEMBLY IN THE MORAVIAN CAPITAL

Brno, 29 April 1990. At the first assembly of the Moravian radicals, attended by about twenty people among whom Richard Stockar, adjunct of the treasurer for Czechoslovakia and Paolo Pietrosanti of the Federal Council of the radical Party, the battles in course (Lithuania, United States of Europe, Antiprohibitionism, institutional reforms in Czechoslovakia, ecology...) were discussed. The problem of the signature gathering for the "Europe" petition and for the document for the legal acknowledgement of the "Radical association for the United States of Europe" based in Prague was also tackled..

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Italy

ELECTION CAMPAIGN: ANGELO PEZZANA, CANDIDATE OF THE CIVIC ANTIPROHIBITIONIST GREEN TICKET ATTACKED DURING A DEMONSTRATION.

Turin, 29 April 1990. During a demonstration against free drugs organized by the Lay Civic Antiprohibitionist List, about ten extremists attacked Pezzana screaming "Red Palestinia". They kicked him, punched him and spat at him. Only the presence of other people prevented these violent people to cause more serious consequences.

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Czechoslovakia

PRAGUE: RADICAL ASSEMBLY

Prague, 30 April 1990. About forty people attended an assembly of members of the Radical Party in which the electoral situation was analyzed and especially that of the Radical members present in different tickets. The participants considered the fact of characterizing these presences in the electoral competition on a certain number of well-defined topics of primary importance: the adhesion of Czechoslovakia to the European Community, the reformation of the electoral system, the protection of the environment (with, among other things, the stopping of the construction works of a nuclear plant in Temelin).

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Italy

THE CLOSING OF RADIO RADICALE: PRIME MINISTER ANDREOTTI MEETS A DELEGATION OF RADIO RADICALE.

Rome, 30 April 1990. Paolo Vigevano, responsible editor, and Giancarlo Loquenzi, director of Radio Radicale together with Sergio Stanzani, First Secretary of the Radical Party and Marco Pannella, President of the Federal Council of the Radical Party, drew Mister Andreotti's attention on the urgency and seriousness of the situation of Radio Radicale. Andreotti seemed well informed on the situation and examined together with the delegation the possible solutions. As regards the draft bill already presented to the Italian Parliament by the majority of the leaders of the different groups, Andreotti, after having examined the text, stated that he would have given an answer within 48 hours.

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Czechoslovakia

DEATH PENALTY ABROGATED. AN IMPORTANT CIVIL AND DEMOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN RADICALS. STATEMENT OF THE RADICALS.

Prague, 3 May 1990. Capital punishment was abolished in Czechoslovakia: the Federal Assembly (Parliament) decided it yesterday, a Parliament which up to now, until the elections to be held on the coming 8th of June, is mainly made of Communists. "We claim for our work as Czechoslovakian Radicals the achievement of this gift which this country has once more given the entire world.

We claim it for the entire Radical party, for the 600 Radicals who, together with John Bok and the others, have started this civil battle in January with a hunger strike, and allowed for this great, true achievement of democracy."

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Italy

PADUA: THE ANTIPROHIBITIONIST ROULOTTE-OFFICE BURNT DURING THE NIGHT.

Padua, 3 May 1990. In the night from the 30th of April to the 1st of May unknown violents set fire to the antiprohibitionist post, a caravan, which for about one month had carried out an important service of information on drug traffic and on drug addictions.

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Italy

PRIME MINISTER ANDREOTTI ANSWERS NEGATIVELY TO THE URGENT PROVISION IN FAVOUR OF RADIO RADICALE.

Rome, 3 May 1990. In a letter to the First Secretary of the Radical Party, Prime Minister Andreotti communicated "that is has not been possible to find the necessary adhesions for an urgent provision concerning an extraordinary contribution in favour of Radio Radicale". The letter by Andreotti remits the matter to the parliamentary passage, where the examination of the matter "can be carried out in a short time, after the resumption of the parliamentary activity".

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Italy

RADIO RADICALE: STATEMENT BY SERGIO STANZANI, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE RADICAL PARTY.

Rome, 3 May 1990. "We acknowledge the fact that Giulio Andreotti punctually kept faith to his commitment to give an immediate answer to the request. I hope (...) that the quickness with which the Parliament (...) will examine the draft bill (...) will be compatible with the serious situation which Radio Radicale must face day by day - and which, as everyone may know, can no longer be protracted without the passing of this provision.

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Soviet Union

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION: INTERROGATION OF MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ALEXANDER KALININ. ANSWER OF THE MILITARY COMMISSIONER IN MOSCOW

Moscow, 7 may 1990. Upon request of the "Freedom and peace" Radical association, the member of the Supreme Soviet Alexander Kalinin asked the office for military recruitment of Moscow for information concerning the number of persons who refuse to do their military service and on the measures adopted by the authorities toward these persons. In his answer, Military Commissioner Bespalov provided the the following figures concerning the first four months of 1990:

- the recruitment office sent to the office for criminal investigation the dossiers of 323 persons, 9 of whom condemned for "refusing to do their military service".

- 790 people have been accused of being deliberately sick to avoid the duty of carrying out their military service.

-253 Muscovites escaped from their military units.

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Italy

IN AN ARTICLE COMMENTING THE ELECTORAL RESULTS PUBLISHED ON THE DAILY NEWSPAPER "IL GIORNALE D'ITALIA", MARCO PANNELLA AMONG OTHER STATED:

Teramo, 8 May 1990. From the enthusiasm of the public opinion to the electoral collapse: the PCI unfortunately is wholly, incredibly responsible for it.

The real conversion operated by its leader, who passed in three months from a situation in which he was suspected of wanting to reach a true "mass radical party", to an Anglo-Saxon reform of the political system, to a great constituent with the Radical-ecologist milieu, to the proposal of another, further Social-Democrat party, tending toward compromises with the current policies of the Socialist party, and aiming at getting rid of any suspicion of attention and dialogue with the Radical Party.

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Italy

SENSATIONAL SUCCESS OF THE ANTIPROHIBITIONIST TICKET. SIX SEATS IN THE REGIONAL ELECTIONS, SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES IN ALL THE MAJOR CITIES. STATEMENT BY MARCO TARADASH, ANTIPROHIBITIONIST MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.

Rome, 8 May 1990. According to Marco Taradash, antiprohibitionist member of Parliament, "the success of the antiprohibitionist tickets is one of the significant data of these elections. Present at the administrative elections for the first time, they obtained six seats, confirming the results of the European elections in a situation with strong local influences and in spite of the absolute lack of means for the electoral propaganda". Not even the scarce information on the goals and the proposals of the ticket - Taradash added - prevented the success of the antiprohibitionist tickets, which will send their representatives also in the municipal councils of the major cities, from Milan to Turin to Genua and Cagliari, the few in which they were present.

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TEMPORARY LIST OF RADICAL MEMBERS ELECTED AT THE MUNICIPAL, PROVINCIAL AND REGIONAL ELECTIONS OF THE 6TH OF MAY.

Rome, 8 may 1990.

For the regionals:

- Emma Bonino, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Piedmont region

- Franco Corleone, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Piedmont region

- Gianluigi Mazzuferi, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Marche region

- Marco Pannella, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Abruzzi region

- Marco Pannella, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Latium region

- Carduccio Parizzi, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Emilia Romagna

region

- Francesco Rutelli, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Campnaia region

- Marco Taradash, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Lombardia region

- Massimo Teodori, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Liguria region

- Emilio Vesce, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Veneto region

Provincial elections:

- Antonio De Nigris, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Turin province

- Leonardo Magnolfi, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Florence province

- Marco Pannella, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Rome province

- Marco Pannella, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Teramo province

- Francesca Scoppellitti, Verde Arcobaleno ticket, Milan province

- Andrea Tosa, Antiprohibitionist ticket, Genua province

Municipal elections:

- Emma Bonino, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Turin

- Luigi Cerina, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Rome

- Marco Pannella, Civic Lay and Green ticket, municipality of Teramo

- Marco Pannella, Democratic Convention, municipality of L'Aquila

- Salvatore Podda, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Cagliari

- Marco Taradash, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Milan

- Massimo Teodori, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Genua

- Alessandro Tessari, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Bologna

- Fabio Valcanover, Antiprohibitionist ticket, municipality of Trento

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Soviet Union

"TOWARDS THE XXI CENTURY WITHOUT DRUGS": ACTION IN THE INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTEL

Moscow, 11 May 1990. Seven Radical activists attended a philanthropic evening organized by "The all Union Society for the Saving of Children and Adolescents from Alcohol and Drug Abuse". An information table organized by the Radicals soon became the centre of an active debate on Antiprohibitionism, which Radicals Khramov and Pronozin somehow recorded for the programme "Vzgljad" (Look), one of the most popular programmes for youth. At the end of the evening, five people joined the Radical Party.

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Yugoslavia-Croatia

YOUNG RADICAL EXPONENT ZORAN NIKETIC, FORMER CANDIDATE AT THE LAST ELECTION FROM A GREEN FEDERALIST TICKET ATTACKED AND SAVAGELY BATTERED BY TWO POLICEMEN IN THE CITY OF ZAGREB.

Zagreb, 19 may 1990. While he was calmly walking, Zoran Niketic, member of the Radical Party and candidate at the past elections, was assailed and violently battered by two members of the Army who were not wearing a uniform. Only the intervention of another policeman, the latter wearing a uniform, saved him from serious consequences. The incredible act of violence has no precedents in Croatia. According to the Radicals of Zagreb, Zoran Niketic was allegedly provoked and accused by two soldiers of having taken part in a riot between Serbians and Croatians following a football match. The young Radical denied such facts and repeated he was a non-violent and was not interested in these ethnic conflicts.

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Soviet Union

RADICAL APPEAL TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

Moscow, 12 May 1990. On the occasion of the visit in Moscow of the first Chinese Prime Minister and a few weeks after the anniversary of the Tien An Men massacre, the Muscovite Radicals broadcasted an appeal signed by the Radicals of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union, Italy, Belgium,....in which they ask for the immediate abrogation of the charges against all political prisoners, and ask for their release.

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Italy

RESCUE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL RICHNESS OF THE ABRUZZI REGION

Strasburg, 22 May 1990. Over 60 members of the European Parliament signed an open letter to the European authorities asking them to immediately interrupt the works on the "Lotto Zero", in that they might irreparably damage an area of "extraordinary environmental and cultural interest".

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RADICAL ASSEMBLY

Prague, 23 May 1990. About seventy people attended the assembly of the Czechoslovakian members and activists. Among those who intervened, Bruno Zevi, honorary president, Emma Bonino, president, Giovanni Negri, member of the Social Democrat Party, John Bok and Richard Stockar, Czechoslovakian Radical exponents.

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PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE RADICAL PARTY

Prague, 24 May 1990. Following the meeting with President Havel, the Radicals held a press conference. Richard Stockar, adjunct treasurer, opened it on behalf of the Czechoslovakian radicals, illustrating the initiatives in course in Czechoslovakia, and especially the "package" of Europeanist and federalist petitions: a rapid adhesion of Czechoslovakia to the European Community, the abolition of visas between Czechoslovakia and countries of the E.C. Honorary President Bruno Zevi, President Emma Bonino and Giovanni Negri, member of the Social-Democrat Party, then answered the many questions posed by the journalists.

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ELECTIONS: RADICAL OBSERVERS

Bucuresti, 26 May 1990. Adelaide Aglietta, Radical, member of the Green group of the European Parliament and president of the parliamentary Romania-E.C. delegation, and Antonio Stango, federal councillor of the Radical Party and president of the Helsinki-Italy Committee, witnessed the carrying out of the Romanian elections as international observers.

This is the evaluation given by Antonio Stango: "In the cities we did not notice too many irregularities, even if in the seats there were many soldiers and officers, in some up to 50, and the electors often went in the electoral cabin escorted by someone of the seat. But in the villages the situation is by far more irregular. There are mayors that vote for entire groups of citizens, presidents that clearly indicate the preference vote for the FSN, and an incredible number of electors that did not enrol in the lists of the section." After having spoken with other international observers, Antonio Stango evaluated in 20% the irregularities committed. All were in favour of the Front.

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AGAINST THE EXECUTION OF EIGHT PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MALYASIA

Brussels, 29 May 1990. Marco Taradash, Radical, antiprohibitionist member of the European Parliament, sent a message to His Excellency Dato Dali Mahmud, Malaysian Ambassador at the European Community, in which he expresses his very serious concern about the information given by Amnesty International, according to which 8 people, accused of drug traffic, risk being sentenced to capital punishment on the 30th of May. The persons are: Au King Chor, 32; Chan Yiu Tim, 33; Yuen Kwok Kwan, 28; Hau Tsui Ling, 32; Li Ching Ping, 28; Ip Tak Ming, 36; Ng Yiu Kwok, 37; Chow Sing, 42. Upon initiative of Taradash himself, 35 members of the European Parliament signed an appeal against capital punishment in Malaysia. He also announced other initiatives among which the request to freeze the agreements for a cooperation between the E.C. and Malaysia if the death penalties are carried out.

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DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE RADICAL PARTY AND OF THE RADICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE FOR THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE USSR AND LITHUANIA IN FRONT OF THE DIFFERENT DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICES OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Prague, 30 May 1990. The demonstrations consisted in the erection of symbolic walls in front of the diplomatic and consular offices of Prague, Brno and Karlovy Vary, to represent the will to block any temptation toward a violent solution of the present crisis. In Prague the Radicals gave the newly elected Soviet ambassador the text of the letter-document of the Radical Party to Presidents Gorbachev and Landsbergis.

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76 DEPUTIES OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF MOSCOW SIGN AN APPEAL WRITTEN BY THE RADICALS AND ADDRESSED TO THE SOVIET OF RUSSIA FOR THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION.

Moscow, 30 May 1990. Alexander Kalinin, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Moscow and member of the radical Party, and Radical Pronozin gathered 76 signatures of deputies of the Russian Soviet for an appeal in favour of the acknowledgement of conscientious objection. The appeal was accompanied by an explanatory and proposition text written by the Muscovite radicals.

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MEETING OF A RADICAL DELEGATION WITH PRESIDENT LANDSBERGIS

Prague, 30 May 1990. Radicals Paolo Pietrosanti, Richard Stockar and Pavel Timco met President Landsbergis who was visiting Czechoslovakia. The Lithuanian President, who proved to be well informed on the Radical Party, charged the delegation of transmitting his thanks to the whole of the party. Greeting the President and wishing him success, the Radicals offered him a broach representing Ghandi.

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THE VOTE FOR THE REFERENDUM AGAINST HUNTING AND PESTICIDES NOT VALID: ONLY 43% OF ELECTORS VOTED

Rome, 4 June 1990 - The referendum vote against hunting and pesticides is not valid because the majority of electors did not vote (only 43% of the population voted). The vast majority of voters (92%) had expressed itself in favour of the abolition of hunting and of the use of pesticides. The referendums had been promoted by environmentalist organizations, by the Radicals, by the Socialists and by the Communists.