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...five-party coalition that Bettino Craxi headed for 3 1/2 years. Craxi's government fell apart in March, after months of infighting between his Socialists and the Christian Democrats over which party should hold the premiership. The polemics and the politics surrounding the collapse were so bizarre, said a Milan daily, that "this republic risks dying of ridicule...
Libya's defeat was caused by more than a logistical gaffe. In recent months France has supplied Chad with Milan antitank missiles (cost: $34,000 each), which have a range of about 2,000 yds. Another factor was the poor morale of the estimated 15,000 Libyan troops in Chad, most of whom are ill trained and poorly paid...
...David Maysles, it is a backstage look at one of classical music's best-known yet least understood figures. Ozawa has been music director of the Boston Symphony since 1973, and as one of the world's top maestros, he appears in such musical capitals as Berlin, Paris and Milan. Yet the first East Asian to succeed in a quintessentially Western art form remains solidly Japanese in temperament and outlook. It is this clash of cultures -- and its effect on his music making -- that makes him such a provocative figure...
...Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 65, told visitors two years ago, after Italy's biggest bank failure had exploded around him. The Archbishop, who heads the Istituto per le Opere di Religione, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, may not make that claim so confidently in the future. Last week a Milan judge named Marcinkus in an arrest warrant as an "accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy" in connection with the 1982 collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private banking group...
...faults aside, the A.R.T. should be proud of this production and proud also that their season of six shows includes three by living American playwrights. Sweet Table at the Richelieu is a surreal tea-time, a peculiar mediation on memory and decay that owes as much to Milan Kundera as it does to Chekhov. It is not quite the "penetrating tale of nobility and charlatanism... guaranteed to keep you engrossed, hypnotised--and dazzled by rich language and seductive images" that the A.R.T. brochure touts. It is, however, a generally intelligent skillful, and well-written piece of theater, and that...