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...passed state secrets to Gelli. The next day, onetime Minister of Foreign Trade Gaetano Stammati was admitted under an assumed name to a Milan hospital after suffering a heart attack. Listed as a lodge member, Stammati had been questioned about huge pay offs on oil deals with Saudi Arabia. Rome magistrates have so far advised 260 officials on the P2 list that they are being investigated. Fifteen of Italy's top generals and admirals have "gone on vacation," a euphemism for temporary suspension, because they were named as lodge members. If all of officials said to be linked...
...increasingly critical of the Sandinistas' repressive measures, the bishops asked them to leave their government posts. They stayed on, claiming the country still needed their services, so the bishops came up with a compromise plan. The priests could retain their jobs but downplay their roles as priests. If Rome approved, that...
...With Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...
DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero and is crowned Empress of Rome, vice has triumphed over virtue, and all at the command of the god of love...