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...first major break came on Jan. 4, just 18 days after Dozier's kidnaping, when police picked up two suspected terrorists near Rome's Spanish Steps. The arrests led to raids on apartments that yielded documents containing a gold mine of information on hideouts, action plans, weapons caches-and other gang members. In all, more than 375 suspected left-wing terrorists have been arrested over the past two months...
...including the Palestine Liberation Organization and West Germany's Red Army Faction. He also provided a fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier was kidnaped, the embassy reportedly was willing to offer assistance in exchange for any NATO...
...churches," and Pope John Paul and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie have been asked to appoint a follow-up group to work out the practical steps necessary to produce reunion. One likely form of such a reunion would involve not an absorption of Anglicans into the existing Church of Rome, but a confederation of distinct, spiritually united, sister churches...
...those optimists who believe that stock prices and hemlines rise simultaneously, the sidewalks and store windows will provide ample reason for rejoicing this spring. From Rome's Via Veneto to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, the skirt has moved above the knee. In fact, the miniskirt is back. At Filene's department store in Boston, where one-fourth of all higher-priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season...
...excellence in the world. It is a good idea to remember Thomas Merton's question: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede... St. Augustine's City...