ITALY: Rival Scandal

Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week...

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