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...baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly $100,000. Two men in a camper have already arrived in Mendocino County, inquiring after Nelson's whereabouts. The marijuana plants that he and his partner, Clarence Meadows, are cultivating in a remote canyon on his father's land will...
...death of one of fashion's most energetic tastemakers, apparently at the hands of one of the FBI's most wanted, immediately sent News Service director Richard Hornik to the phone. Los Angeles bureau chief Cathy Booth, who met Versace during reporting stints in Rome and Miami, arrived in South Beach that night and visited the gay bars and nightclubs where the designer and his killer may have crossed paths. In New York City, reporter Stacy Perman sorted through Versace's finances, while Georgia Harbison traced his influence on the next generation of designers. Former Rome bureau chief Jordan Bonfante...
...ROME: Fifty-four years after a massacre in an Italian cave, two former Nazi S.S. officers have finally been found guilty. Former SS captain Erich Priebke, nearly 84, checked off the names of the 335 men and boys as they were led to slaughter. On Tuesday, a Roman court ordered him to serve five years of a 15-year term. His co-defendant, former S.S. Maj. Karl Hass, 84, who shot at least two of the victims, was given a suspended 10-year, eight-month sentence and allowed to go free. The two were convicted despite Italy's 30-year...
Neither Bellenson nor Sasson spends any time in Washington. Sasson has been there twice as a tourist and once on business when he worked for Bechtel. "It reminded me of Rome," he says, meaning the pomp and not the classical beauty of its architecture. He adds that it "has no relevance to high-tech industries." Bellenson has been there a few times for conferences and "sensed it's a closed environment...I was struck by how oblivious they are to the conditions of the poor, though they work with the poorest of the country right nearby." Sasson describes himself firmly...
...others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir to the gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted...