Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Congressman contends that all the cash donations were legal because they went to pay for the party and defends such collections in Wilsonian style. "You think I got money?" he asks. "You should have seen my son's wedding. He married an Italian girl, and Momma stood at the door with a bag in her hands. They made out like bandits...
...Italian views were shared by Spain's Communists. Party Boss Santiago Carrillo, who is under attack from Stalinists in the ranks, issued no statement of his own, but an executive commission statement charged the invasion created "new dangers for world peace." Even the British Communists, who normally back Moscow's foreign policy down the line, openly questioned the Soviet rationale for invading Afghanistan. The assertion that Afghanistan's late President Hafizullah Amin had been an American agent, proclaimed the Morning Star, was simply "not credible...
...Moscow. The most vociferous defense of Soviet actions came from Marchais. Interviewed on French television after his return from a six-day visit to Moscow, Marchais described Soviet troops in Afghanistan as peaceful forces" and the invasion as a "totally legitimate intervention" to counter "imperialist threats." Asked about the Italian and Spanish Communist condemnation, he answered tartly: "You still haven't understood that my name is Marchais, that his is Berlinguer and that the other's is Carrillo...
Some European pundits noted that the Italian and Spanish Communists had hedged their bets a trifle-neither party specifically demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops, and both balanced their attacks on Moscow with broad swipes at the U.S. In Italy, Berlinguer's zest to condemn the Kremlin was seen by many as a rather obvious attempt to project an image of his party as more European than Communist in order to improve its future electoral prospects Marchais's hard pro-Moscow line seemed to confirm the old quip of former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who said that...
...tireless in the bedroom as on the road or concert platform. His chief paramour in this volume is the sensuous Italian contralto Gabriella Besan-zoni. She and Rubinstein tour Latin America like a couple of gypsy children, piling up gold pesos under their bed as they go. Other liaisons are briefer: the demimondaine "Charlottavotte," whom he enjoys between the lifeboats on a crossing to South America; the American actress who is so enchanted by his playing that she offers herself to him for the night as a tribute; and many a French bourgeoise "who apparently needed a diversion from...