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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, March 18, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tensions in Tirol Tyjohn Tagliabue new York times on t think i would t to  the Silvery haired pol Liclan said i rusling a linger for emphasis Afler Oil. I d probably in prime Mim Sci Bui i refuse to awaken Hopes Hal have no Chanco of  Silvius Magnago mused Over ideas Hal arise in Bolzano. Italy Tram time to Lime la make thai North italian Roi Jion a separate country a Liechtenstein or in Manno. Of one of if Oso other Little count res in i i Ropo they Call Magnago 75, inc fall or of the Little in wherland for As Long As anyone can recall in the sleep prosperous alloys of the upper adige As the to liars refer Loil or the South Tirol As is austrians Sarto has Boon running things in who Alpine italian province population 430.000 his own life in Many ways  inc Region s ambiguities at his birth in 1912 to a German speaking Mother his italian lather was a fudge in Iho service of the austrian Orn poor he was seven when the trealy of is. German closing world War i ceded Iho Region twice the size of Rhode Island to Italy he was 27 when Hitler and Mussolini pledged to sweep the area of German Spe Ketu. And his fax her chose to slay in Nlaly while he and his Molher immigrated to Germany. He was drafted into he German Werf Nacho Osl a or of on the russian Tiona and in Lunod to South Tirol As he says when Host slips ceased almost since than to hos in inc Stidl Idolor Volk spa Lei which collects virtually All the votes of the German speaking population. I m democratic enough to Rospoch the opinions of  he said slouched in a chair under a map showing South Tirol uni cd wild the austrian province of Tirol and paintings of Andreas Hofer Tho Tiro loan Folk hero who fed resistance to Napoleon. Bui to believe Hal italian politicians and the government could voluntarily give up Bolzano and alter the herders is pure Utopia i won t say it does not Mecl Tho wishes of Broad segments of the population. But h s Utopia " in several International agreements since 1946 Rome has pledged autonomy to Iho upper adige. In the 1960s, slowness i lab Arang he accords spawned a rash of bombings and most people agree it was in pan Magnago s steady hand that banned i Omha tag on killings hic Whoso m the Basque area of spam of talc though. The tension Bas been growing again a measure giving German speakers a larger say in things has foam Hal 0bs in government whore most italians find work Are rare that has pushed up unemployment among italians led loan exodus to other pails of Nlaly. And caused a High Laid Cwm to inc no fascist italian social Movo Meni. Doubling is share in inc 19b5 local elections to 22 6 percent of the Vole Tho response was a revival o Iho bombings in january an opt onion Shook the hotel in Merino where f Ore Iron minister Giulio Andreotti was slaving then a  of bombs a pack or near the Homes of Pianin Ifni i Viljari speaking pols cans no one was a Lix or  bul the nervousness grow one of those Magnago probably Means when he , in Oil utopians is Eva Klot. A slight 35 year old Sci incr schoolteacher and the a Juhler of Gcorge Klotz Sis hold by Nihim White italians Call in upper adige austrians know the italian province As South Tirol Here a Street in Bruneck. A Hacks Milf the Kali ans used to Call the Hammerer because he led the bomb laying squads of lha 1960s unlit forced to flee to Austria where he died in owl. Klotz and nor brother Manor eco Lead a group called the Ham Albund that seeks full autonomy Lor sooth Tirol for our solution we Ihrk of Switzerland for our administration of Liechtenstein or  Slalz who eschews violence Saio. Well take from each of i desc models whatever we believe applicable we con use italian postage Stamps Austria can represent us in Ihu Smied nations we can remain in Nail the important thing is to regain our foreign by irom Nlaly one who intensely mistrust ii Mir a of the hair us i bund is Piedra Millu  
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