Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...correspondent for the prestigious Milan daily Corriere della Sera, Walter Tobagi, 33, was widely known for his writing about Italian terrorism. Too widely known. As he left his home one morning last May, two young gunmen shot him to death, then fled in a waiting Peugeot sedan. Within hours, the notorious Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder in a long communiqué attacking the Italian press. The bulletin was signed by a newly created branch of the terrorist organization known as the March 28 Brigade, named for the date in 1980 when four Red Brigades members died...
...young would-be terrorists who wanted to join the Red Brigades. So the Brigades gave them an initiation test: silence Tobagi. Mission accomplished, they were evidently given a second assignment: kill Giorgio Bocca, a special correspondent for Rome's daily La Repubblica and a columnist for the weekly Italian newsmagazine L'Espresso. The plot fizzled when Bocca was alerted to two suspicious-looking young men loitering near his house last June, and called police. The men escaped. Other journalists are believed to have been marked for assassination by the March 28 group. But before the killings could...
...cereals so that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre steak...
...Federal National Transportation Safety Board last week issued a long-awaited report urging the Coast Guard to increase efforts "to improve fire safety on foreign cruise ships embarking American citizens at U.S. ports." The report was prepared as the result of a fire last year that destroyed the Italian ship Angelina Laura while it was docked at St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. But some experts are calling for more decisive action. Said a U.S. maritime safety expert: "Somebody ought to force these foreign flag ships to meet at least the minimal fire safety standards...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury