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During his five years as TIME'S bureau chief in Cairo, Wilton Wynn frequently covered the fighting in war-torn Lebanon. Now the bureau chief in Rome, Wynn was back in Lebanon last week when Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. A few days earlier, Wynn had obtained the only interview with Gemayel after his election as President, and the last one, it was to turn out, that the Christian leader was to give. Wynn's impressions...
Gelli, who held dual Italian-Argentine citizenship, had been on the run since last year after a police raid on his luxurious villa in Arezzo, 130 miles north of Rome. There, they discovered, the financier also served as "venerable master" of a bizarre Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Its membership of nearly 1,000 included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced...
...will take office as President on Sept. 23, is talking like the national leader of Christian and Muslim alike. Last week Lebanon's President-to-be, lounging in blue slacks and an open-necked shirt in his 400-year-old ancestral home in Bikfaya, talked with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn about Lebanon's problems. Highlights from the interview...
...While in Rome they pondered what to do, the city of Saguntum was vanquished by enemies," intoned an impassioned Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo, borrowing a line from the Roman historian Sallust. In his own words, Pappalardo added: "Yet this time it is not Saguntum, but Palermo! Our poor Palermo...
...harshest indictment yet of the Rome government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...