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...without a trace in 1975 after pledging to boot his Mob sponsors out of the union. At the time, the family was emerging as a global trader of sorts, in one case allegedly trying to pass $950 million in counterfeit and stolen securities to the Vatican's bank in Rome. In a recent operation, the family shipped counterfeit watches, wallets and clothing from Hong Kong to Florida...
...outgoing NATION editor, Terry Zintl, is enduring a crash course in Italian to prepare for a change of scene as Rome bureau chief. During his five years in the section, Zintl brought an expansive outlook to the job, which White says will continue. "The mood and tone of the U.S. is set as much outside Washington as inside," says Zintl. "We tried to find out what our leaders were saying but also what Americans were doing." From his Rome base, he will have the even more expansive task of finding out how the people of three ancient cultures -- Italy, Greece...
...answer, basically, is that as Britain's power waned, its ruling elite increasingly saw its country's link with the U.S. as akin to that between ancient Greece and Rome. This teacher-student thesis, with its implication that Washington should take on London's global role, found attentive ears within an Anglophiliac American establishment. Hitchens contends that Britain guilefully dominated the relationship by appealing to ties of blood, class, nostalgia and a common tongue...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...