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Tuesday, December 6, 1994
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Supposed police-connected killings investigated in Italy
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ROME — Three members of the Carabinieri paramilitary force died in a January 1901 ambush in Bologna that seemed to be an isolated attack in a dangerous neighborhood.
Now police have been hit with another blow: allegations that some of their own masterminded the slayings. The attack — and at least 15 other killings that included Arabs and Africans — were part of a four-year murder and robbery campaign driven by greed and racial hatred, officials charge.
The girlfriend of one suspect reportedly has given prosecutors a vivid picture of the gang's twisted motives: deep hatred of Third World immigrants and a lust for firepower.
Five police officers are among those arrested in raids that have shaken the credibility of law enforcement. The probe is prying open the tight ranks that long shielded Italian security forces from outside scrutiny.
"No one is untouchable," promised Interior Minister Roberto Maroni. "The investigation will stop at nothing and no one."
The final picture, some claim, could shed light on many of the nation's unsolved crimes.
"I would not be surprised if it comes out that (the police suspects) were linked to the secret services," said Massimo D'Alera, head of the Democratic Party of the Left, the former Communist party.
Police brass insist there is no evidence to connect the police suspects to a grand conspiracy. In the court of public opinion, however, the law enforcement establishment is on the defensive in the latest disgracing probe.
Dozens of tax police officials are accused of demanding bribes from businesses, including Berlusconi's media and retail company. The domestic secret service has been wracked by embezzlement scandals. Some suspects in train bombings and other attacks have secret service ties.
The first arrest came Nov. 21. Roberto Savi, a Bologna police officer, was taken into custody and his house was searched. Authorities found a small arsenal that included a Beretta machine gun — the type used in the Carabinieri shooting.
On Nov. 24, another Bologna police officer, Pietro Gugliotta, was arrested as he drove toward the Austrian border with his girlfriend, Eva Mikula.
The others charged include Roberto Savi's younger brother, Alberto, a police officer in Rimini, a police officer from Bologna and another from Cesena.
Italian media have quoted friends and relatives of the suspects saying they openly discussed their racist views and sometimes toasted after a slaying.
World Bank pledges $1 billion to environment
CAIRO, Egypt — The World Bank pledged yesterday to double its lending to 31 billion a year for environmental projects in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Associated Press
Caio Koch-Weser, vice president of the bank's Middle East region, told a news conference that worsening water and air pollution and shrinking arable land have brought the region to "the point of crisis."
He spoke after meeting with environment ministers of the 22-member Arab League who are holding two days of talks to coordinate environmental strategy.
A World Bank report prepared for the ministers said that nearly one-quarter of the 240 million people in the Middle East do not have safe drinking water. Some 95 million do not have safe sanitation and less than 20 percent of urban wastewater is treated, it said.
Middle Eastern nations will have to spend $60 billion to $85 billion over the next decade to clean up pollution and put systems in place to prevent further environmental damage, the report said.
Violence surrounds Mexican inauguration
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — The governor-elect of Chiapas said yesterday he will leave Mexico's ruling party after rebels threatened to unleash a blood bath if he was inaugurated.
Rebels resist governor's election
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Eduardo Robledo Rincon said he was asking for a leave of absence from the Institutional Revolutionary Party until he finishes his six-year term as governor. He is to be sworn in on Thursday.
Robledo's announcement came after an agreement negotiated by the
government and the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party to reform election laws and improve conditions for the southern state's impoverished Indians.
In exchange, the leftist party agreed to let Robledo take office peacefully.
There was no immediate reaction to Robledo's announcement from the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army.
The standoff had posed the first challenge to President Ernesto Zedillo, who took office last Thursday, inheriting the guerrilla war from former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The rebels launched their war last New Year's Eve in fighting that claimed more than 145 lives.
The Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, which says Robledo's election was fraudulent, was skeptical of his departure from the ruling party.
The rebels maintain the real winner of the Aug. 21 gubernatorial election was the PRD's Amado Avendano, not Robledo.
Indians and peasants were marching yesterday from remote villages toward Tuxtla Gutierrrez. They had vowed to seize the governor's mansion to keep Robledo out.
The inauguration is to be held in the state capital, where police were preparing heavy security to guard public buildings and highways in anticipation of protests by thousands of opposition activists.
British laborites want reformed monarchy
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tling of the United Kingdom.
LONDON — The governing Conservative Party, down in the polls and hungry for an issue to turn its fortunes, attacked the opposition yesterday for suggesting that Britain has too much royalty.
The Labor Party said it's talking about reform, not abolition, although some Laborites would much rather have an elected president.
"What most astounds me is that the Labor Party throws around constitutional change without any thought, with absolute gay abandon," Employment Secretary Michael Portillo told BBC Radio. "And now, off the cuff, they seem to be devising a new policy for the monarchy, reducing the monarchy to some sort of queen on a bicycle."
Conservatives countered that diminishing the role of royal family members would lead to the disman-
Although they don't have to call an election until 1997, the Conservatives need an issue to start hacking into Labor's 30-point lead in opinion
polls.
Last week, Prime Minister John Major survived a confidence vote over increased contributions to the European Union, but he faces another test today on raising fuel taxes.
The monarchy may not prove a winning issue.
In a Gallup Poll in May, 74 percent thought "too many members of the royal family lead an idle, jet-set kind of existence" and 60 percent said there was "too much formality and empty ritual about the monarchy and the royal family."
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