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Dalla Chiesa's death robbed Italy of its most charismatic para-military leader in years. The 62-year-old general had just come off a brilliantly successful campaign against the Red Brigades terrorist network in Rome when he was named prefect of Palermo last April. No better choice could have been made for this mission impossible--to fight the Sicilian Mafia on its own turf--than the selection of Dalla Chiesa. Having vanquished the kidnappers of U.S. Gen. James Dozier and the killers of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Dalla Chiesa stood for everything efficient, uncorrupted and powerful in Italian...
...never before seen in such cases. At the funeral in the Basilica of San Domenico in Palermo, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolon and his cabinet were heckled and abused by an angry crowd impartent with the government's seemingly ineffectual stand against violence. The long-over-due response came from Rome almost immediately. The President of the Republic promulgated a law granting broad powers of investigation to a newly created office of high commissioner against organized crime. The acts allows for a variety of lactics, including phone taps, extensive examination of personal bank records, and beefed-up protection for secret witnesses...
...more than a decade ago spotted TIME'S cover subject, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, as "a key figure who possessed unusual competence." When Bernardin was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1974, Ostling interviewed him in a Washington hotel room; later their paths recrossed in Rome during the 1977 and 1980 synods of bishops...
Other West Europeans hope that Andropov's ascendancy will break the pattern of worsening East-West relations. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of Rome's Center of Strategic Studies: "Our colleagues in the Soviet Union who were in close contact with Andropov before Brezhnev's death have often spoken of him as a focal point for more flexible East-West relations." Jacchia, like many Europeans, fears that Washington may pass up an opportunity to exploit openings. "Clearly, there is something new beginning to move in Moscow. Will Reagan and his people react positively to this...
Political crisis is as familiar to Italians as pasta, as regular as a strike, but the latest parliamentary high-wire act in Rome had even seasoned observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare...