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...Supreme Court. It decided last week that it would review the decision of a Washington appellate panel that last March rejected the Government's assertion of a virtually unfettered right to bar several foreign visitors, including Nicaragua's Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and former Italian General Nino Pasti. In the meantime, Randall remains in the U.S. while preparing to make her case before an immigration appeals board. But in a federal lawsuit she is pressing a separate challenge to McCarran-Walter itself. Her suit has been joined by PEN American Center, a writers' advocacy group, and eight prominent American...
Among three generals elected was Nino Pasti, former NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
...Communists did even better: they shrewdly lined up candidates who might help offset anti-Communist criticism from NATO, the Common Market and the Vatican. One of their Senate candidates is Nino Pasti, 67, a retired four-star general who formerly served as NATO's Southern Europe Air Force Commander. "They are fully reliable," insisted Pasti of the Communists. "It's a democratic party; I am convinced of that." Common Market Commissioner Altiero Spinelli, 68, meanwhile, became a surprise Communist choice for the Chamber of Deputies. Spinelli, a former Communist and political prisoner under Mussolini, became his nation...
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