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Sant memoirs: Mintoff’s watery stew, cheap plonk, and his Gang of Four Alfred Sant’s political tell-all casts a ruthless eye on Dom Mintoff and his confidants, a much-needed sober view of the man Labour loved before he brought down the house in 1998 15 April 2021, 7:19am by Matthew Vella Bertie Mizzi’s wisdom is solicited by Dom Mintoff, standing next to his works minister Lorry Sant In Alfred Sant’s tell-all on the 1980s, the novelist’s keen eye for detail generously embellishes the mundane world of a political era that few people had access to, or even read about in the staid press of yesteryear. ....
The years 1975-1992 were a period of conflict and transition all over the world, as well as in Malta. Alfred Sant’s memoirs Confessions of a Maltese European, which are being published this spring by SKS provides a personal chronicle of his experiences during those years. They start with his years in Boston, at a time when US society was absorbing the shock of the resignation in disgrace of President Richard Nixon. Sant’s story then shifts to Malta. It covers the years leading to the successful finale of the Mintoff administration’s effort to eliminate once and for all the island’s reliance on the military base operated from it by the British. Meanwhile, political conflict picked up and remained a feature of the Malta scene for long years to come. In 1977, Karen Grech was killed by a bomb sent to her father’s house; in 1986, Raymond Caruana was shot dead at the PN’s club in Gudja. ....