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...informant's information supports another's, you have to be convinced something is going on." U.S. intelligence officials, for example, started piecing some details together last September when they learned of an alleged Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection, and Rome police arrested a suspect. Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports were circulating in France that Gaddafi was planning assaults on other U.S. embassy personnel in Europe. U.S. officials thus grew especially concerned when Christian Chapman, chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Paris, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in November. No suspects...
...private citizens, and it is doubtful that they posed a threat to Tripoli. Instead, their killings were presumably intended to set an example. So Byzantine are Gaddafi's methods that when Libyan Hitman Abdel Nabih Swaiti, who was tried and convicted for attempting to kill a Libyan exile in Rome last June, was found dead of a heart attack in his jail cell two weeks ago, Gaddafi was immediately suspected of being behind his death. The reason: Swaiti may have been poisoned first. An inquiry is now under way. Suspicions also linger that Gaddafi was behind the attempted murder last...
...gifts, expenditures on baubles and bangles this season appear to be particularly lavish. In Rome, such elegant shops as Gucci and Fendi are so crowded with Christmas shoppers that latecomers have been forced to queue up outside. Carla Fendi, one of five sisters who run the family's fashions, furs and luggage firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers...
...from both the Red Brigades of the left and the neo-Fascists of the right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...
...second charge springs from the increasing tension between China's officially recognized "Patriotic" Catholic Church, which follows Communist policy by totally rejecting papal authority, and a "Silent Church" movement of unknown size that remains loyal to Rome. The conflict between the two sides intensified last June when the regime withdrew its tacit recognition of Jesuit Bishop Dominic Tang as head of the Canton diocese. The ouster came just after Pope John Paul II asserted Tang's Vatican connection by appointing him Archbishop of Canton. Tang's Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued...