Word: italian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, apparently issued the credits and kept the records at home. Drogoul, whose possible motives are still being investigated, has been dismissed. The Italian bank contends that it will suffer no losses from the scheme because the credits were guaranteed by U.S. and Iraqi agencies, but banking experts believe debt-laden Iraq may be hard pressed to make good if the deals go sour...
...increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going to be difficult for America to understand that it is not the only rich Western power anymore...
...pact -- whose secret protocols resulted in the partition of Poland at the onset of World War II -- by denouncing the agreement as a violation of "sanctified moral norms of international coexistence." Lest anyone miss the point, Polish opposition leader Lech Walesa spelled it out in an interview with an Italian newspaper: "We are setting out . . . to return to the prewar situation when Poland was a capitalist country...
...life-styles. One of Rodriguez Gacha's spreads north of Bogota boasts several swimming pools, an artificial lake and a two-acre flower garden. Another Rodriguez Gacha mansion, inside Bogota, features a crystal staircase set amid pink marble walls and bathrooms equipped with gold-plated fixtures and rolls of Italian toilet paper on which were printed copies of classic artworks. Escobar's prize possession, a 1,000-acre ranch known as El Napoles, even had a private zoo stocked with giraffes, dwarf elephants, rhinoceroses and some 2,000 other exotic animals, many imported illegally from Africa. President Barco decreed that...
...quarterly, the issue is sold out and copies have even been filched from subscribers' desks. Anthony Hartley, editor of Britain's prestigious monthly Encounter, adds his voice to the debate in the September issue. Translations of Fukuyama's article, titled "The End of History?," will soon appear in Japanese, Italian and Dutch journals. The French quarterly Commentaire will also publish a translation, along with critiques by leading intellectuals such as Jean-Francois Revel. The National Interest, which accompanied Fukuyama's article with responses by such pundits as Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) and New York's Democratic...