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States the current American presidential campaign is turning into a commedia dell'arte based on bad checks and lace panties. Contention that the worse is yet to come; Why the US Congress has sunk into the bog of the ridiculous because of bad checks; Doubts about America as the touchstone of mature, universal democracy.

Reprints an article from `La Repubblica' of Rome which comments on the state of urban police work in light of the beating of Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. An institutionalized war; The myth and the reality; Cops shielding cops; Frustration, paranoia, a state-of-emergency mentality.