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Sean Hurwitz
President
Italy Celebrates
Facisim Liberation
Rome (JTA) — Italy marked the
50th anniversary of its liberation
from fascism amid a political cli-
mate that resounded with strong
echoes of the World War II con-
flict between the fascists and the
resistance.
The April 25 celebrations this
year came two days after local
elections, whose official results
showed surprise gains for the cen-
ter-left parties and a sharp set-
back to the center-right allies of
former Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi.
Both Mr. Berlusconi's Freedom
Alliance and the former commu-
nist Democratic Party of the cen-
ter-left each won just under 41
percent of the vote.
Rightist leader Gianfranco Fini
acknowledged that his National
Alliance had fared less well than
it had hoped, with 14.1 percent
of votes.
The elections, however,
showed a country sharply — and
almost evenly — divided politi-
cally, 50 years after the end of the
war. On April 25, 1945, Italy's
anti-fascist partisan movement
declared an insurrection in north-
em Italy, where dictator Benito
Mussolini had set up a puppet
government after being driven
out of Rome by the Allies.
Three days later, on April 28,
Mr. Mussolini, his mistress
Claretta Petacci and other fascist
leaders were executed by parti-
sans and their bodies were strung
up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto.
Church services, rallies and
other events were held through-
out Italy to mark the anniver-
sary.
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
began the day by paying homage
in Rome to the 335 victims of the
March 1944 Nazi massacre at the
Ardeatine Caves.
The victims, who included 75
Jews, were executed by the Nazis
in reprisal for a partisan attack
that killed 33 Nazi stormtroop-
ers.
The massacre is regarded as
the worst war crime to have tak-
en place in Italy.
Mr. Scalfaro later issued an ap-
peal for national unity during a
mass rally of 100,000 people in
Milan's Duomo Square.
`This is a day of celebration for
the entire Italian people," he said.
"History cannot be changed, and
only respect for the truth should
be the basis of reconciliation."
Recent political changes in
Italy, and particularly the rise of
conservative forces allied with
Berlusconi, have opened debate
about the wartime conflict be-
tween the anti-fascist resistance
and supporters of Mr. Mussoli-
ni's fascist government.
Mr. Berlusconi, who resigned
in December rather than face a
no- confidence vote, was elected
prime minister last year after
forging a coalition that included
the National Alliance party,
which includes former neo-fas-
cists.
Mr. Fini, the National Alliance
leader, was for years the leader
of the neo-fascist Italian Social
Movement.
Conservatives have been urg-
ing that the April 25 holiday be
a commemoration of Italians on
both sides — fascists as well as
Rallies and other
events were held
throughout Italy.
resistance fighters — who fell
while fighting for their widely dis-
parate visions of Italy.
There have also been calls that
April 25 should be a day of rec-
onciliation granting dignity to
both sides.
Opponents of the right urged
that the anniversary be an occa-
sion to speak out against Mr.
Berlusconi, Mr. Fini and their
policies and to reaffirm the anti-
fascist stand of the wartime re-
sistance as the bedrock of Italy's
postwar political development.
Israelis Injured
In Lebanon
Jerusalem (JTA) — Two Israeli
soldiers were lightly wounded
when members of the Islamic
fundamentalist Hezbollah move-
ment fired missiles and mortars
at an Israel Defense Force post
in southern Lebanon.
IDF helicopter gunships and
artillery responded, shelling vil-
lages north of the security zone
Israel maintains just north of its
border with Lebanon.
Sources in Lebanon said two
Hezbollah gunmen were killed
and a Lebanese civilian was
wounded in the exchanges.
The clashes came after Hezbol-
lah forces launched a Katyusha
rocket attack on northern Israel.
Four people were lightly wound-
ed and property was damaged,
when a rocket exploded between
houses in Kiryat Shmona, which
has been the target of previous
rocket attacks.
Hezbollah claimed responsi-
bility for the attack, saying it
came in retaliation for the deaths
of two civilians during heavy
fighting the day before.