Word: messagero
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...last romantic, as Rome's daily Il Messagero put it last week, is the way most Italians still think of Raffaele Mi-nichiello, the disgruntled U.S. Marine who commandeered a TWA Boeing 707 at carbine point all the way from California to Rome in 1969. Minichiello's 6,900-mile, 17-hr. 48-min. record for long-distance hijacking still stands, as does his unique place in the folklore of Naples which claims him for its own, though he was born 80 miles away in the mountain town of Melito Irpino. Last week Minichiello set yet another outrageous...
...ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled to a pension. He argued his case tnrough the ministry right up to De Virgilio, who had no recourse except to give him a final no. Then, as Rome's Il Messagero said, in the tormented mind of Galvino Lepori "our complex, cold bureaucracy took on flesh and blood in the form of De Virgilio...
...down South. The Ukraine, which usually has its heaviest rains in June, this summer had unseasonable torrents in August. Mud was last week still a hindrance almost as great as the enemy. Vehicles bogged hub-deep (see cut}. Messagero's war correspondent wrote: "The soldiers say: We are caught in the chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across...
...view was unendurable and soon Nazi and Fascist press puppets were swinging into action. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sprinkled Nazi papers with such ominous phrases as "impending decisions," the "war of tomorrow," the "mighty reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig and colonies...
...Italy had no prejudice against the League, Italy only desired that its position on the League should be adequately established within the organization through which the League functions. By explaining that only five out of 300 of the League's personnel on the Secretariat were Italian, the Rome Messagero showed what Benito meant...
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