Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...Soviets early on made plain that soapboxes would not be permitted at their party. When an Italian gay rights activist tried to stage a demonstration in Red Square, he was quickly overwhelmed by uniformed police and plainclothes KGB officers. The police also closed in on a group of journalists who were covering the stunt. U.P.I. Bureau Chief John Moody was kneed in the groin and detained for 25 minutes, two French photographers were roughed up and forced to expose their film and an NBC cameraman had his film confiscated...
...hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit cycling. The winner, Robert Dill-Bundi, shook his head and wept when the white flag with five rings...
...Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed. A sightseeing nun fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish Pope. The plot turns on the Pontiffs attempt to establish a Vatican TV station as a means of attracting young people to the church. Rossellini is hired as a public relations aide for the venture, in exchange for eternal...
...YORK--The New York Cosmos fans love to boo Glorgio Chinaglia because he looks lazy standing alone by the adversaries' goal. But the broad-shouldered Italian forward is not lazy. He is an international star, the team's leading scorer, an artful dodger who dances through opposing defenses without soiling his crisp white Cosmos uniform with the big green "9" on the back...