La Stampa of Turin carried two front-page comments Monday demanding the air strikes be ended.

La Repubblica of Rome Monday described Netanyahu in a front-page comment as "the worst of all the heads of government that the Jewish state has had in its half-century of existence."

The easy victory of this former wartime partisan and European enthusiast was welcomed by La Repubblica of Rome in a front-page comment as "a fine moment for Italian politics and for the whole country."

Moskovskiye novosti of Nov. 1, in a front-page comment, warned that the leadership's stated intention to end chemical weapons contradicts actual internal practice and revealing this practice is regarded as a crime.

All the Italian papers gloomily recalled the Red Brigades' bomb outrages and assassinations of earlier years, but La Stampa of Turin said in a front-page comment that there is an important difference now.

A front-page comment in Corriere della Sera of Milan called this "an audacious challenge to the United States, but one full of risks."

In an accompanying front-page comment, the paper said: "Typically German.

In response to the government's opposition to the international arrest warrant, the moderate Milan daily Corriere della Sera ran an unusually harsh front-page comment saying, "Someone accused of fiscal fraud is deceiving the Italian people."

In a front-page comment Monday by Bernardo Valli, Rome's La Repubblica said the result diminished the chances that Helmut Kohl will return as chancellor after next September's parliamentary elections.

Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera of Milan, pointed out in a front-page comment that Rome was the only city in Europe to organize a municipal party to celebrate the birth of the euro.