TRIESTECOSSIGA'S CLAIM ABOUT TITO MONUMENT IN TRIESTE ANGERS RULING RIGHT WING - NEWSPAPERTRIESTE, Aug 15 (Hina) - Former Italian President and lifetime senatorFrancesco Cossiga's statement that a monument to Josip Broz Titoshould be
erected in Trieste has angered the right wing in power inthis northern Adriatic Italian city, the local Il Piccolo daily saidon Sunday.
TRIESTE, Aug 15 (Hina) - Former Italian President and lifetime
senator Francesco Cossiga's statement that a monument to Josip Broz Tito should
be erected in Trieste has angered the right wing in power in this northern
Adriatic Italian city, the local Il Piccolo daily said on Sunday.Cossiga, who is holidaying in Bolzano, has told Corriere dell'Alto Adige
daily that the residents of Trieste ought to be "grateful to Tito and the
partisans" for liberating them from Fascism and Nazism. "Tito would deserve a
monument in the city centre," he was quoted as saying.
Trieste's deputy in the Italian parliament, Roberto Menia, has said
Cossiga has "suffered sunstroke" and that he would rather remember him as the
first Italian president who acknowledged the Italian victims killed by Tito's
partisans in WWII, according to Il Piccolo.