'Who gives a [expletive deleted] about the Italians', was one of the more memorable passages in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes.
Americans - you have to love their straightforwardness.
Incidentally, I was in Blackwell's in Charing Cross and Lafontaine's book ('out next month') was on sale.
In message <p04320416b5c751973b20@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>Lisa & Ian Murray quoted:
>
>>Oskar Lafontaine, the former German finance minister dubbed "the most
>>dangerous man in Europe" by The Sun newspaper
>
>And dubbed "that asshole" by our esteemed Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers.
>
>Doug
-- James Heartfield
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