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- <title>
- Mar. 26, 1990: World Notes:Racism
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 48
- World Notes
- RACISM
- Europe's Hostile Face
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> "Not even God could resolve the present situation in
- Florence," lamented Giorgio Morales, the city's mayor. He and
- the 15 members of the Florence city council stepped down last
- week, frustrated by a spasm of racial violence that has shaken
- the cradle of Italian humanism.
- </p>
- <p> Late last month rampaging white hoodlums attacked blacks
- with iron bars and baseball bats, injuring three North African
- immigrants. As the assaults continued, authorities flooded the
- city with 300 police to quell the violence and chase out
- immigrant street vendors, who have angered native-born
- merchants, inflaming tensions. After a hunger strike by more
- than 100 Senegalese, the city agreed to new rules governing
- street sales.
- </p>
- <p> Meanwhile, North Africans were having a rough time in France
- as well. There, three men of Maghrebian extraction were slain
- in separate attacks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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