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Brightness at Midnight?
Singer, Daniel | September 5, 1994 issue

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The sudden troubles of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, while in no way removing the authoritarian danger, revealed the vulnerability of the new regime when faced with real resistance. Milan's prosecutors have forced the triumphant tycoon to give ground, and their undisputed victory may well open an entirely new chapter in the saga of tangentopoli or bribe city. Hitherto the extraordinary revelations of official corruption concerned kickbacks being paid to get public contracts; now comes news of bribes offered to avoid or minimize taxes, touching Berlusconi's own interests. All this raises the question of whether the legal machine, set in motion with the idea of changing the political system, has not acquired a momentum of its own.

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BERLUSCONI, Silvio, 1936-; AUTHORITARIANISM; POLITICAL science; POLITICAL systems; BRIBERY; TAXATION; PUBLIC contracts; ITALY
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