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...public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against a state they blamed for failing to check terrorism. In other cities throughout the country, tens of thousands of demonstrators staged protest strikes against the bombing. Concluded the Rome daily La Repubblica: "Never has the gulf between the real country and the legal nation been greater...
...start of political terrorism in Italy and for which rightist extremists were tried and sentenced. The bombing took 16 lives and left 90 injured. In the past three years, the N.A.R. specifically has been blamed for 25 attacks, including the murder in June of Mario Amato, a Rome judge who had been investigating its activities...
...next serious test began in 1951, when the popularly elected government of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. In 1953, right-wing monarchists in the army unsuccessfully attempted to depose Mossadegh; the Shah was forced to flee to Rome. A few days later, however, a countercoup sponsored by the CIA restored him to the throne. The Shah launched a ruthless purge, particularly of remnants of the Communist Tudeh Party, which had been outlawed in 1948. He also organized a secret-police network, SAVAK, that was to become one of the most notorious in the world...
...Environmental Quality, The Global 2000 Report to the President represents the accumulated findings, statistics and analyses of 13 Government agencies, from the Department of Agriculture to the CIA. On the whole, the conclusions are hardly startling. Indeed, as compared with such doomsday forecasts as that of the Club of Rome's 1972 The Limits to Growth, which predicted mass starvation, political chaos and general catastrophe by the middle of the next century, the study is cautiously restrained, even muted, giving its warnings more impact in a way. The report's highlights...
...betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome." In fact, Forster had it backward. Dante placed Brutus and Cassius in the ninth circle for the same reason he put Judas there, not because the three sinners were disloyal to friends but rather because they were disloyal to Church and Empire, and thus to the divine order of things, which...