Word: italianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made a special effort to rally the NATO allies. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to London to meet with high-ranking British, West German, French, Italian and Canadian diplomats, then on to a New Year's Day emergency meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The NATO allies agreed to review thoroughly their relations with the Soviet Union and to find ways to back countries near Afghanistan, particularly Pakistan, which is not only frightened by the increased proximity of Soviet army units but is also deeply troubled by the mounting chaos in neighboring Iran. They also decided to solicit...
...last of Naples' Bourbon rulers, Mayor Maurizio Valenzi, 70, was trying to explain his city's problems over the din of the protesters. Valenzi is anything but a Bourbon; he is, in fact, a Communist, one of a score of Communist mayors elected to office in major Italian cities in the party's wave of election victories in 1975 and 1976. Like most of the others, he is decidedly frustrated, because as a group Italy's Communist mayors have been no more successful at solving urban problems than their centrist or right-wing predecessors...
...mayors came to power with lavish promises and high hopes of curing unemployment, housing shortages and a host of other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...
Novelli's biggest single headache is a monstrous migraine: terrorism. As the home of Fiat's giant works, Turin is targeted by the radical left as the stronghold of Italian capitalism. Three weeks ago, still another Fiat official was almost routinely shot in the legs as he walked to his home in a Turin suburb. The "kneecapping" was the city's 124th terrorist attack to take place in 1979. Novelli insists that this pattern of violence "has not interrupted the carrying out of our duties for one hour. We have given Turin a government. In the five...
...Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport in the world to search passengers and X-ray luggage...