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...prospect so alarmed President Jimmy Carter that he recalled U.S. Ambassador Richard N. Gardner from Rome for consultations. For weeks, Gardner had been sending increasingly urgent cables warning of the deteriorating Italian situation. In Washington, in talks with Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gardner emphasized his worry that the Administration's low-key approach to Eurocommunism-a stance he himself had urged-had left some Italian politicians with the mistaken impression that the U.S. did not care...
...sharpened by a growing despair over an epidemic of violence. Then came a sudden eruption of new bloodshed. The troubles began over the long Epiphany weekend, when a team of six extremists, presumedly leftwing, pounced on a neighborhood headquarters of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.) on Rome's outskirts and assassinated two young people. In rioting that followed, another young M.S.I, member was killed in a clash with carabinieri...
...building. That is, the Louisiana Superdome, the arena for the Super Bowl clash between Dallas and Denver. It has been called, variously and hyperbolically, the eighth wonder of the world, the most usable public facility ever designed, the structure that will make all other existing stadiums as obsolete as Rome's Colosseum. It is, claim Orleanians, "the domedest thing you ever saw," "the classiest sportin' house in the world" and "the Miracle on Poydras Street...
...however, clarity may not matter, for the film leaves the real world behind and enters the realm of allegory. When the fascists are driven out of Rome, the peasants turn on the fascists of their own town, and then it is the padrone's turn. Passive as ever, De Niro stands before a people's tribunal--under a huge red flag that is miraculously unharmed by the bayonets that hold it up. But if De Niro retained his love for his peasant friend throughout the fascist period, Depardieu cannot overcome his ties to De Niro and he does not permit...
...this winter, Andreotti proposed a new round of austerity to slash the towering public-spending debt. The unions, already angered by an unemployment total of 1.6 million workers, or 8% of the labor force, responded with a vengeance. Early in December more than 150,000 striking metalworkers marched on Rome to protest. Andreotti defended his economic package-a mix of new investments as well as new tariffs-but the union leaders rejected it and threatened to call a general strike in mid-January...