Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free november 1981 How the italians live with troubles by Paul Hoffman new York times each one out of every nine italians goes to the Post office if the staff happens not to be on collects the pension the government pays the nations Many the amount is Small enough get or so but it helps the recipients and their families to get their pasta on the table every with six million of these invalids 36 years after its last Italy would seem to be one of the worlds most hazardous racked by Crip pling accidents lurking everywhere in its factories and to the newspaper Reader Italy seems a permanent disaster the government changes every year and is on the Brink of collapse every two months gunfire and bomb engineered by left Wing and righting terrorists As Well As by punctuate every Day and when one of the frequent earthquakes or floods the authorities Are unable to Cope with the an outsider can italians enjoy a civilized life when society seems to have broken Down entirely Spry octogenarians yet italians seem to be Able to through All this with their vitality and longevity Are re those six million invalids Are often nursing highly questionable and Italy death rate is lower than that of West Britain or Italy is full of Spry and Lucid doctors at a recent symposium on geriatrics Attri buted the Long average life Span of the italians to the fact that the frugal habits of the past have not yet been completely replaced by the splurge of a consumer society Well As the National reluctance to take anything too seriously and the italians Knack for look up Arran Gramento in the dictionary and youll find the translation the dictionary ignores the overtones of when italians As almost every one of them does every ill arrange they mean they will try to make the Best of a Rotten resort to improvisation in a use their wits to get out of a tight neapolitan above All have a reputation for being arrangement uncounted thousands of inhabitants of that singular City invent their Day and their livelihood every maybe they will buy a few Cartons of smuggled american cigarettes from a middleman and sell or even two or three single to smokers on the and if they Are nabbed by the finance the ant Contra band there is always a last resort the eight Day this Hal Lowed neapolitan tradition permits householders to ask the neighbourhood pizza Baker to deliver to them As Many pizzas As they have Mouths to feed and to Promise payment within a pizza on credit is an edible Monu ment to but the techniques of arranging things Are inn and by no Means mastered Only by neither is the refusal to crumple in this this aptitude for making is a National trait combined with uncommon can be traced Back through the the sanguine philosophy that misfortunes Are to be laughed off and that the worst does not always come to pass distinguishes the italian barbarians come and go with their gift for snapping Back after catastrophe and for making do with what they the inhabitants of Italy have outlived the decline and fall of the roman barbarian inva raids by Saracens and incessant communal pestilence and famine and Earth quake come out All right again and their Way of life and their closely knit families Many thousands of Small and me Diu size employing from a dozen to a few Hundred have entered tacit sweetheart deals with the which to some extent protect them from quite a few of the Small entrepreneurs have found it convenient to get a communist party membership card for the Sake of labor this Maze of often family companies that go quickly into new production lines if they look profit and that do not mind cutting Cor is the most vital part of the italian in More than half of Italy Gross National product is turned out by such their dynamic performance contrasts strikingly with that of the ailing Leviathan of the stat controlled sector plagued by Low productivity and red recommendation is a Basic term in the vocabulary of survival Iri with a powerful personage As a Spon seemingly insurmountable difficulties melt members of parliament spend much of their time writing recommendations for government ministers and other High officeholders have their own staffs for dealing with favor with hundreds of thou Sands of recommendations floating around Italy at any Given most of them must cancel out each get Ting the protege of the Parish priest in some Dusty Southern town an invalids pension is easy enough satisfying a police officer who wants to be Transfer red from the wilds of Sardinia to Rome is More of a hence the search for Ever More efficient for ultimate influx which appears to have been a prime Factor in the spread of the secret masonic Lodge known As propaganda an elite of Power the Lodge functioned As a Blu ribbon net work for Mutual assistance in securing key lucrative business deals and other the exposure of what investigators termed a conspiracy with masonic trappings caused a scandal of the first magnitude and helped topple the Christian democratic but plots and secret societies Are not new in Italy they belong to the Arsenal of the oldest secret network of them All is the sicilian created As the islanders method of coping with the foreign domination they had suffered since the Middle it Long ago degenerated into a parasitical and criminal system and spread through much of in such big cities As Milan and since the beginning of this at least 180 alleged gangsters have been killed in at stake is control of the Rich pickings in Relief Money and materials that last years after the initial has brought to to survive mafia generally adopt the code of conduct enforced by that honorable eyewitnesses do not relatives of kidnapped persons As a Rule do not cooperate with the but seek to establish Contact with the gangsters through friends of Over pay phones or by other channels that Are shielded from the Leonardo the sicilian writ has observed that the Young Ultra leftists of the terrorist red almost All of them Urban intellectuals from Northern and Central Are consciously or unconsciously imitating mafia techniques and so Are other ideologically motivated under ground networks on the extreme left and extreme right together with the red have been responsible for the Mur Ders and sabotage that Italy has been enduring for about a dozen very Brave communist All too Many italians seem to react to the political terrorism As if it were just another mafia sideline not get a communist worker in Genoa who did get involved and in formed the police of red brigades activity in his Plant was promptly the mafia code of noncooperation with officialdom runs through the whole of italian if you need something from the get it through recommendation if in a roundabout you can always find a doctor who will certify that you Are suffering from incurable arthritis to make you eligible for the invalids on the other the authorities want something from do not comply if you can help Little conspiracies Are evident in everyday one of the regulars at a favorite Trattoria of mine is Gian Gianni is a Oneman secret he told me How he makes a Comfort Able living while not living legally at he buys and Sells Oriental rugs and objects genuine or and has never paid an tax on his which seems to be he is not listed in the Telephone has no Bank and does most of his business in once in a he reluctantly accepts a Cheque in pay ment instead of cashing it asks his who is a Bank to get him the Money for a Small the amazing thing is that there must be thousands of Giannis in in Italy baroque administrative machinery there dead locks where All recommendations and fixers Are lose your Drivers and it May take you months to obtain a elderly peo ple must usually wait for several if they live so before they Are officially told the exact amount of their old age pensions in the mean advances Are grudgingly doled out to Public hospitals Are Over crowded and often rather than enter one of the Many luxurious and costly private italians who can afford it seek surgery or other treat ment in Switzerland or the United there is Little Public and More and More Young people must live with relatives because they cannot find an apartment of their the chasm Between the developed North and the underdeveloped South is As wide As no wonder the italian state and its rulers and civil servants Are the average citizen expects the worst of italians Are generally con Vinced they Merit much better Leader ship than they last in an outpouring of idealism and National Young volunteers set out Florence and other Northern cities to bring Pidto the earthquake victims in the but the depressing spectacle of the authorities bungling soon caused an emotional president Sandro Certini toured the stricken area and went on television to Tell the nation angrily that the official efforts to Cope with the emergency had been slow and and that Many of those buried under debris might have been saved but were left to such a Welcome contrast to the tortuous parlance of most politicians and has made who is 85 years one of the most popular figures in Italy images of poverty television and the press showed the world How the ancient towns huddling on the harsh Southern Mountain slopes had been reduced to and How old wrapped in Black were weeping for their the haunting pictures of last years Earth quake have probably reinforced the notion abroad that most of Italy is Rural and desperately but there Are other scenes in Italy that the worlds press rarely there is the cocktail hour Parade of the Beautiful people in the via Mont Napoleone in one of the smartest shopping streets in All there Are the Wel Todo neapolitan families taking Over the luxury hotels in Capri and Amalfi when the american and West German tourists do not picking the most expensive items from the menus and giving lavish tips to Cut a Good such vignettes Are glimpses of an upper crust that indulges in ostentatious there is also a rather Broad layer of italian families who somehow can afford second Homes in the country or at the second or third Mink Coats and frequent restaurant president Sandro Certini has How they can All manage to live the Way they do is question that less affluent italians and baffled foreign visitors ask All the one explanation is that the so called or Black Economy moonlighting and other income pro during activities that do not show up in any statistics is much More vigor earned credibility despite Italy rickety National Ous in Italy than in most a Fprmer finance Franco re that tax dodging is amid the the Kidnap the bureaucratic disasters when natural disasters italians con 41j an a Wallans Chii three to four times More widespread Tine to discover new ways of escaping than m other Western harm and even of enjoying them morals to May condemn some of a Century Giuseppe Gari these methods of getting by As frito Baldi admonished his countrymen to irresponsible or and they be 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