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Bergman and Rossellini divorced when the twins were five. Although Ingrid had custody, the children moved eventually to Rome, where they lived with a nanny across the street from Rossellini's own house. Ingrid occasionally spent time there, and Pia, her daughter by her previous marriage, moved in for three years. Rossellini's three children by other alliances were often on hand. "Like all Italian children," says Isabella, "we were integrated into adult life, taken to restaurants, to the theater, doing whatever they...
...purity and newness of its members but rather in the continuity of its history, which can only be seen through its older structures. If you eradicate that which relates to an urban center's past, such as its old buildings, you destroy its personality. A city like Rome is beautiful not for its efficiency or cleanliness but for its diversity. Spacious streets, blank walls and giant blocks of steel and concrete may make a pleasing design on paper, but in reality they create a desert of human expression. Marcello Pense Delray Beach...
...Soviet intelligence activities in France. He made several trips to Italy, which prompted speculation that he might have been investigating Bulgarian links in the plot to kill Pope John Paul II. Nut could also have played a role in uncovering Soviet Agent Victor Pronin, who was arrested in Rome the day before the French intelligence officer was murdered. Italian Under Secretary of Defense Bartolo Ciccardini seemed convinced that Nut's death played a role in last week's mass expulsion. Said he: "This assassination triggered a war between the French and Soviet secret services. The French could...
...defection of a well-placed Soviet agent. Diplomats recalled that Britain's 1971 ouster of 105 Soviet personnel was triggered by a KGB defector who fingered his former colleagues. Moreover, the French acted a week after Britain threw out two Soviet diplomats and a journalist. In Rome a month earlier, Italian police had arrested the deputy director of the Rome Aeroflot office as he was obtaining microfilmed plans of NATO military positions in northeastern Italy. The Rome manager of a Soviet petrochemical company was also seized, as paymaster of the operation. In Madrid, a member of the trade delegation...
...that he had committed suicide. Yet doubts have Lingered about the grisly end of the onetime president of financially troubled Banco Ambrosiano, who was known as "God's banker" because of his extensive financial dealings with the Vatican. Seven days before his corpse was discovered, Calvi had fled Rome to avoid investigation into illegal dealings and possible imprisonment. He apparently told relatives that he would "name the names" of people involved in the scam...