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While the Finance Minister did not criticize U.S. lenders, many Brazilians did. Said Senator Severo Gomes, a member of the ruling party: "There can be no attitude of flexibility toward the banks." Said Aldo Lorenzetti, a Sao Paulo-based businessman: "Each side is baring its teeth and sharpening its claws to get the best possible result in the negotiations...
When former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped in 1978 by Red Brigades terrorists and held hostage against the release of 13 imprisoned brigatisti, Italy was convulsed with shock and alarm. The ruling Christian Democratic Party took a hard line on negotiating for his release, and 54 days later Moro's dead body was found in the back of a red Renault...
...whose name has been synonymous with status and high fashion, it was a humiliating and humbling moment. Aldo Gucci, 81, former head of the Italian clothing and leather-goods company that bears his name, had pleaded guilty in January to evading $7.4 million in U.S. taxes, and last week he stood in a Manhattan federal court awaiting his sentence. "I feel very sorry, deeply sorry for what happened," said Gucci, in a halting, emotional voice...
Even as the Guccis battle enemies around them, they seem unable to forge a workable peace within. The suit against Maurizio is only the latest family feud to land in the courts. In 1982, Aldo was sued by his son Paolo, 54, formerly Gucci's chief designer, who accused his father, brothers and cousin Maurizio of beating him up to settle an argument during a riotous board of directors meeting...
...Embarrassing as that case must have been to all concerned, another of several suits brought by Paolo against his father has attracted an opponent more stubborn than any grudging relative: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Paolo alleged that Aldo evaded substantial U.S. corporate and income taxes by squirreling away company funds in a series of overseas front operations. That accusation has sparked an IRS investigation that may prove to be more damaging than any quarrel within the House of Gucci...