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| | Italy in a Flash - Italy News 10.02.99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Technically speaking, it will not be a new party, but rather, in the words of Signor Prodi himself, an alliance between "different political entities under the Olive umbrella." The different entities are to be Prodi's various Olive Clubs, Antonio di Pietro's Italian Values movement, and the Centocittà movement of one hundred local mayors. |
 | | Valter Veltroni, secretary of the Democratici di sinistra (DS, or Left Democrats), a close ally of Prodi in the Olive grouping when Massimo D'Alema was secretary, has accepted the challenge, saying he will tour Italy in a "battle bus." |
 | | According to Fausto Bertinotti of the Refounded Communists, this collision will mean the Left wing will lose the elections, and open the door to a Right-wing government. |
| www.italyflash.com /italyflash/shortt/news/archive/990210_1.shtml (536 words) |
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