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...city is its receptivity to the foreigner, its openness to the stranger with unfamiliar ideas. That made Paris what it was and New York what it is. Raphael, appearing in some scrofulous Sicilian hill town in the cinquecento, would hardly have altered the history of cart decoration. Appearing in Rome, he changed the history of art. Something of this kind-the transformation that only urban cultures can produce, sparked by an apparently small event-had occurred in Naples...
Balancing Brazil's despair was Italy's jubilation. Pandemonium erupted throughout the nation. In Rome teenagers races, toward Trevi Fountain following the final gun. According to officials reports, seven seconds after the game had ended the first fans had already reached the fountain. They jumped in fully clothed and joyously refused to be fished out by surrounding policemen...
...warnings, which do not amount to formal charges, stem from Agca's statements to an Italian magistrate last fall that he had accomplices in his attempt on the Pope's life. Not only had Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines office in Rome, and two embassy officials plotted the shooting of the Pope in May, Agca reportedly told investigating Judge Ilario Martella, they had also plotted the murder of Walesa when he journeyed to Rome four months earlier for his meeting with the Pontiff. Agca said an Italian union official was involved...
...Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded that a shooting attempt was too risky, and decided instead to explode a bomb in Walesa's hotel room or in a nearby parked car. The resulting blast in downtown Rome, Judge Imposimato concluded, would have caused "a massacre." The alleged murder plot was never carried out, for reasons that are still unclear...
...newspaper of a left-wing Italian political party of which Scricciolo was a member. Scricciolo vehemently denies any part in a conspiracy to kill the Polish union leader and says he knows no military secrets. Dismissing the new allegations, the Bulgarian embassy in Rome declared, "It is unavoidable that a new stage in the campaign of slander and provocation is beginning." Under Italian law, investigating magistrates do not need to explain their decisions as they prepare a case, but it seems that Agca's charges alone prompted Judge Imposimato to issue the warnings last week. Agca has changed...