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...main force behind the "Movement for Peace and Disarmament," which brought more than 200,000 protesters into the streets of Rome last month, was the Italian Communist Party...
Although the Italian press has given the impression that most of the protests are aimed at the U.S., a group of Communist youths stopped last month outside the Soviet embassy in Rome to shout, "Comrade Brezhnev, cannons are useless, revolution is made by the masses!" Many of the placards at Rome's big Oct. 24 rally carried the rhyming couplet, Dalla Sicilia alia Scandinavia, no alia NATO e al patto di Varsavia (From Sicily to Scandinavia, no to NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Libyan government promptly dismissed Haig's charges as "insolent in the extreme." But French government sources said that Chapman had recently received a number of threats, some of which had been traced to Libya. In Rome, a U.S. embassy official said there was some evidence that Gaddafi was planning to go after American personnel. Indeed, U.S. security agents learned last September of a Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection. One reason he was suddenly summoned home to Washington last month was to preserve his safety. In early October...
Never had the European climate seemed more favorable to Moscow's appeals for peace. Extensive demonstrations in Bonn, London, Brussels, Paris and Rome last month brought nearly a million people into the streets to protest the scheduled deployment of 572 NATO missiles beginning in 1983. Moreover, Europeans were increasingly jittery over U.S. nuclear strategy in the wake of Ronald Reagan's casual remark three weeks ago that an "exchange of tactical weapons against troops" in Europe was conceivable without escalating into an all out exchange between the two superpowers. Although it was misleadingly quoted out of context...
...left Warsaw and later departed for Rome for talks with Pope John Paul II, the Archbishop said that he thought that the situation "was clearing up. I'm a little more optimistic. What we need is social order. We need authority and we need work. It was for that reason that we had our meeting...