Word: francesco
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Italian officials reacted swiftly, fearing that the disaster could badly damage a wine industry that accounted for $953 million in exports last year. Italian Agriculture Minister Filippo Maria Pandolfi announced a new regulation that requires all wine marked for export to carry a government certificate of purity. Francesco Artale, director of the largest association of Italian winegrowers, tried to reassure customers in the U.S., which is Italy's biggest export market. Said he: "I can categorically exclude the possibility that any Italian wine sold in the United States has been adulterated...
...Francesco Angiulo, 65, was found guilty on nine of 13 counts against him, including the racketeering charges, gambling and extortion. Donato Angiulo, 62, was found guilty on four of eight counts, including the racketeering charges, extortion and gambling. And Granito was found guilty on the three against him, the racketeering charges and gambling...
...Gennaro, Francesco, and Donato Angiulo, and Samuel Granito, 78, of Revere, were all found guilty on those counts. Another Angiulo brother, Michele, 58, was found innocent of racketeering offenses and guilty only on one gambling count...
...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...
...parliament, the Prime Minister delivered a spirited defense of his actions during the hijacking ordeal. Then Craxi made the five-minute trip to President Francesco Cossiga's Quirinale Palace to resign. Craxi's government had served 26 months, which was one month shy of the tenure record for the 44 governments Italy has had in the past 39 years. Instead, the outgoing coalition earned a new distinction: it was the first one to fall owing to a foreign policy crisis rather than a domestic one. At week's end Cossiga was carrying on discussions with all of the country...