"What an impudence!" fumed Ernst Hinsken, a member of West Germany's Bundestag. "Irreconcilable with the hospitality that should be shown by the host country!" complained West German Transport Minister Jurgen Warnke. The high-octane grousing in Bonn was directed at Italy, which last month imposed an experimental 110-kilometer-an-hour (68 m.p.h.) speed limit on its autostradas and an even more impudent limit of 90 kilometers (56 m.p.h.) on other roads. Yet even as Italian officials debated last week whether to return to the old 140-kilometer (87 m.p.h.) highway limit when the trial ends early next month, police records indicated that the speed reductions...
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