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...ENDOWS HIS narrator with an urbane wit which frequently turns upon Western decadence and indicts the depersonalized world of modern technology. John's sarcastic wit carries the novel through its occasional slow stretches such as his lengthy drive from Naples to Rome...
...hour of change.' The Communist Party must govern!" That chant resounded through the high-domed chambers of Rome's Palazzo dello Sport last week as bespectacled Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer rose to address his party's 15th national congress. From a lectern bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, he issued a strident challenge: "The Communist Party has always stood on the very threshold of power. If the national and political crisis is to be solved once and for all, we must cross that threshold...
Tremors were reported in West Germany, Hungary and Austria. Residents of Rome felt tremors strong enough to set their chandeliers swinging...
...explosion within the Arab countries and seriously undermine moderate political forces there. The Common Market nations, which get 68% of their oil from the Middle East, gently tried to dissociate themselves from the treaty, fearing that open enthusiasm could make enemies among the Arab oil producers. Reported TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "There is a distinct lack of dancing in the streets here. Europeans don't want to be caught, along with Carter, on the Israeli-Egyptian end of the pole, with Arab oil on the other...
DIED. Ugo La Malfa, 75, newly named Deputy Premier of Italy and venerated leader of his country's small but influential Republican Party; of a stroke; in Rome. Active in the anti-Fascist resistance during World War II, the Sicilian-born La Malfa established himself as a champion of lean, efficient government and unfettered private enterprise while serving in seven governments and every parliament since 1946. Sometimes called the Ugocentric for his strong individuality, he was also nicknamed Cassandra for his pessimism. But he was perhaps best known as the Conscience of Italy for his personal integrity...